Technology
Inventions Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Liquid Fuel Rocket USA by Robert Goddard
Aerosol Sprays Norway by Erik Rotheim
What Events Happened in 1926
- General strike in England begins in support of the coal miners strike on May 3rd and Ends May 12th
- 5,000,000 Unemployed in Europe with 2 million in Germany and 1 million in England
- Hirohito Crowned emperor of Japan
- John Logie Baird, first public demonstration of a television
- Mussolini takes control in Italy
- Pontiac Cars are made
- Henry Ford announces the 40-hour week
- Kelly Blue Book First Published
- Silent film heart throb Rudolph Valentino died causing a worldwide frenzy among his fans
- Population: US 115 million, Britain 45 million
- Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel
- The continuing Turf wars between the gangsters escalates as Twelve cars full of gangsters open fire at the Hawthorne Inn, headquarters of Al Capone in Chicago.
- 1926 Miami Hurricane (or Great Miami Hurricane or the Big Blow) was an intense hurricane that devastated Miami, Florida in 1926.