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1916
 
  
The Federal-Aid Highway Act sets up the first national road system in the US     
1916
 
    
Captain Peter Nissen, a Canadian mining engineer, designs the Nissen Hut for the Allied armies       
1916 September 15
 
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Eleven British tanks go into pioneering but ineffective action at the battle of the Somme       
1917 November 20
 
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Suitable ground is selected by the British at the battle of Cambrai for the first serious deployment of their new tanks       
1919
 
    
John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown fly from St John's in Newfoundland to Clifden in Ireland       
1919
 
   
Canadian National Railways is formed from two of the country's largest rail systems      
1921
 
    
The British airship R-38 bursts into flames on its fourth flight and crashes into the Humber       
1922
 
    
British manufacturer Herbert Austin launches Britain's first car for the popular market, the Austin Seven or 'Baby Austin'       
1922
 
    
Linus Pauling, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, begins theoretical work on the nature of the chemical bond       
1924
 
    
German scientist Felix Wankel builds a model of a rotary engine, thirty years before the first prototype is manufactured