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| 1903 |
| | | Orville Wright travels 40 yards in the first successful powered flight, at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet in a historic encounter in Manchester and launch their first car, the Rolls-Royde 10 hp, later in this same year. | |
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| 1904 |
| | | An observatory with a 100-inch reflecting telescope is set up by George Ellery Hale on Mount Wilson in California | |
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| 1904 |
| | | US inventor King C. Gillette receives a patent for a disposable safety razor | |
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| 1905 |
| | | English engineer Herbert Austin sets up a factory to manufacture cars at Longbridge, south of Birmingham | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The first boat to be powered by a combustion engine, the 125-ton vessel Venoga, is launched on Lake Geneva | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Percival Lowell predicts the existence of an unknown planet, almost exactly where Pluto is discovered 25 years later | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Simplon rail tunnel, the longest in the world (20 km), is opened between Switzerland and Italy | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Cunard company launches the Lusitania on the Clyde as a sister ship to the Mauretania | |
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| 1907 |
| | | US inventor Lee De Forest patents the Audion, a sensitive vacuum-tube radio receiver | |
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