The first commercial radio station in the nation, Pittsburgh radio station KDKA,hit the airwavesin 1920 and started a wave of popularity. Five hundred stations hit the airwaves within the span of three years; by the end of the decade, 12 million households had radios. Although commercial radio...
The first commercial radio station in the nation, Pittsburgh radio station KDKA,hit the airwavesin 1920 and started a wave of popularity. Five hundred stations hit the airwaves within the span of three years; by the end of the decade, 12 million households had radios. Although commercial radio...
Glasses like these only allowed one color image to reach each eye, and the brain would separate the layers. The 3-D boom of the 1950s may have saved the film industry. With television programs stealing audiences away from theaters at an alarming rate, studios of that era developed a ...
Greta Garbo sported an Empress Eugénie hat in the 1930 film Romance, setting off a fashion craze that persisted through much of the decade. At right, Kemp Starrett referenced the trend in this Aug. 8, 1931 cartoon in The New Yorker. (Pinterest) * * * From Our Advertisers Speaking of ...
inventions that became immediately popular; and lists of the 100 all-time greatest toys. The recommended age range for these gifts is mostly for toddlers, but a few are specifically for adults. This list reveals a unique snapshot of trends from each year in the past century, from building ...
Shrinky Dinks required kids to operate a hot oven (and left open the potential of burns from scalding hot plastic). Although they debuted in 1973, a real Shrinky Dinks craze wouldn't arrive for another decade. Amazon 1969: Nerf Balls ...
inventions that became immediately popular; and lists of the 100 all-time greatest toys. The recommended age range for these gifts is mostly for toddlers, but a few are specifically for adults. This list reveals a unique snapshot of trends from each year in the past century, from building ...
(n = 12,333). Analyses in MESA were carried out for an unrelated subset of participants constructed by retaining at most one individual from each group of first-degree relatives. We did not perform relationship inference and removal of first-degree relatives in AIR, as there were no ...
Named as top-ranked innovations of the past decade were: computers in education, direct instruction, and mainstreaming the handicapped. Foremost identified fads were: right/left brain-based instruction, computers in education, and open-plan schools.;Other considerations discussed included: innovation ...
She was first elected to the SAG Board in 2008, and her extraordinary leadership accomplishments include revolutionizing SAG-AFTRA's low budget contracts and fighting fiercely for over a decade to remove ages and birthdates from IMDb. She also devotes her time and energy to ensuring that our ...