1883 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago
1898 1st automobile sold
1920 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
1925 KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
1926 The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands
1930 Planet Pluto named
1932 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train