America's Founding Primary Source Documents:
1913 - Amendment XVI & XVII in the Bill of Rights -
Congress' right to collect taxes;
two Senators per state who serve for
six years.
William Howard Taft, Twenty-seventh U.S. President
(1909-1913)
William Woodrow Wilson, Twenty-eighth U.S. President
(1913-1921)
Statehood
48 Continental United States of America, see 1959 for next addition
Food: Fruit cocktail is created by a California canner.
Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook.
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Photography:
Edward S. Curtis
(American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)
- Science:
Atomic Number Understood
British physicist Henry Moseley determined atomic number based on the unique number of protons
of each element; the modern periodic table is arranged by atomic number.
Technology:
Model T's selling fast!
Due to assembly line process reducing production cost, sales price drops from $825 in 1908 to $575 each in 1912 and sales soar! Ford becomes the world's biggest car manufacturer and claims 48% of the automobile market.
First Scheduled Airline - St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line
Plan for the first scheduled airline conceived by Percival Elliot Fansler who corresponded with Tom Benoist,
manufacturer of Benoist airplanes and coordinated with the city of St. Petersburg and found financial investors.
Room for one paying passenger. Flights started January 1, 1914
and ran through May 5, 1914.
The Men Who Built America (philanthropy)
JP Morgan (banker, owner of General Electric and U.S. Steel) dies in 1913.
Rockefeller (Standard Oil) lives to 97 years old and dies in 1937. He gives away more than
$530 million in his lifetime (worth $100 billion in 2014 dollars).
