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1901
 
    
Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense The Tale of Peter Rabbit       
1901
 
    
Ransome Eli Olds manufactures the Curved Dash Oldsmobile on assembly line principles in Detroit       
1901
 
    
The concept of instant coffee is developed in Chicago by the Japanese American chemist Satori Kato       
1901
 
    
Rudyard Kipling's experiences of India are put to good use in his novel Kim       
Rudyard Kipling, by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 1899
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1901
 
    
A change of palette by Pablo Picasso takes him into what becomes known as his Blue Period       
1901
 
   
The British batsman C.B. Fry hits a record six consecutive centuries in first-class cricket      
1901
 
    
Frank Lloyd Wright designs low residential buildings, suitable for the plains around Chicago, and calls them Prairie Houses       
1901
 
    
The Austrian biochemist Karl Landsteiner discovers that human blood is of varying types       
1901
 
     
The first of Edward Elgar's five Pomp and Circumstance marches has a trio section that becomes "Land of Hope and Glory"        
1901
 
    
Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto gives him renewed confidence after the disaster of his First Symphony in 1897