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Kyle D. Ashley P. & Michael S. __** Inventions of the 1920's **__ **__Band Aid__:** T he inventor of the bandaid was Earle Dickson,when he made the bandaid he was working at a gauze factory called “Johnson & Johnson”. His wife would end up cutting her self almost every day and one day he came up with the idea of a peice of tape with gauze in the middle and he later on sold the strips and his company owners installed a machine to make them and which they thought of the name " Band-Aid" __** Hair Dryer :**__ The way woman would dry their hair was by inserting a hose in the exhaust of a vacuum cleaner and blowing their hair dry. By the 1920's the ides of this went public, there were many hazards such as it was large and that it over heated easily, the hand held dryer was not invented till 1951. **__Traffic Light:__** A police officer named William Potts from detroit Michigan, invented the traffic light, he used red,amber and green lights and $37.00 dollors worth of wire from thee light and was first put on the corner of woodward and michigan avenues in detroit. Around the saem time Potts invented this an african american named garret morgan invented the automated traffic light, which worked the same way rail roads do today.
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The advertisements show what one can do during their leisure time. You can enjoy a quiet day at the park. You can go to a baseball game, or go to jazz club at night. This gives a good description of how people had icons, time to their selves to get away from their troubles, and how they relaxed. The 1920’s had some of the best ways of how to spend your leisure time.

Around eighty eight years ago a tragic and horrifying event took place. On September 16th 1920 a cart pulled by a horse was filled with weights and dynamite. The cart pulled up to the assay office on the intersection of Wall Street. The cart exploded and killed around thirty people instantly. Many people were not killed but about three hundred were injured severely.  **__First radio broadcast. __**  November second was a historic day in America. The first major radio broadcast occurred in 1920 on November 2nd. Many people tuned in to listen to this modern marvel of the time.  January 16th the eighteenth amendment going into effect. The consumption of alcohol is now outlawed. No one can sell, produce or move any form of alcohol. **__Personalities of the 1920’s: __**  **__Major Sports Figure:__ ****Babe Ruth:** was one of the beast Major league baseball players of his time. Each year he broke his previous record of how many home runs he made. In 1920 babe Ruth broke his record of 45 homeruns. Babe signed to the Yankees and hit over 50 homeruns.
 * __Bombing on Wall Street. __**
 * __No more alcohol. __**
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Sports Figure:__Jack Dempsey:** jack was a boxer,He did alot of floor-boxing matches to rein victorious in over 80 professional fights by the age of the 24.by the time he retired he had a record of 60-7-8 50 of them was nockouts he was universel sports star

 
 * __African American (Harlem renaissance):__ Claude McKay:**<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> at the age of 20 he published a book called “Songs of Jamaica.” In 1917 he published two poems “the Harlem dancer” and “invocation” he was very well educated.
 * __African Amercian:__ Duke Ellington:** Duke began playing music professionally in Washington, D.C. in 1917, he was a well known piano player.
 * __<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Famous Women: __**<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **Alice Paul:** she was fighting for the equal voting rights for women, the 19th amendment passed because of the actions she has made.


 * __Famous Women:__** **Louise Brooks:** how she became famous was her sexual promiscuous, she was remebered as a beautiful women with the unique hair style called the bob, she was true to her idles and independence this sometimes almost cost her, her career.

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