Technology
- First crossings of the Atlantic Ocean by air.
- May 8–31 - US Navy Curtiss floatplane NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read makes the first transatlantic flight, from Naval Air Station Rockaway to Lisbon via the Azores.
- June 14–15 - A Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown makes the first nonstop transatlantic flight, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Ireland.
- July 2–6 - British airship R34 makes the first transatlantic flight by dirigible, and the first westbound flight, from RAF East Fortune, Scotland, to Mineola, New York.
- December 1 - XWA, in Montreal, Quebec, is the first public radio station in North America to broadcast.
- Lee De Forest files his first United States patent for the Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- United States firearms designer John Browning finalizes the design of the M1919 Browning machine gun.
- United States firearms designer John T. Thompson finalizes the design of the Thompson submachine gun.
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