Technology
- April 29 - Swedish American engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, New Jersey, patents the all-purpose zipper.
- French inventor René Lorin patents the ramjet, but attempts to build a prototype fail due to inadequate materials.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)