Documents in Year 1906                     

Links of Interest:

• Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth U.S. President

(1901-1909)

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• Food:

  Kellogg's Corn Flakes go on sale.
  Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook. p 57

• Inventions:

AM (Amplitude Modulation) Radio by Fesidon.

On 24 Dec 1906 a Christmas Carol was heard on ships over Morse Code Receivers from Fesidon's AM transmission. Marconi (inventor of Morse Code) bought the license from Fesidon. AM radio became popular in the 1920s.

Electric Cash Register

• Photography:

  Edward S. Curtis

(American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)

• Literature:

  The Jungle by Upton Sinclair published

(You can download video clips on the Industrial Revolution) from the Discovery Education website about the fictional novel, Jungle, which addressed the poor working conditions of meat packing plants in Chicago during the Industrial Revolution. The result brought about meat inspections but not better conditions for employees. That happened from the inside through labor unions.

• Natural Resources:

  Mesa Verde National Park Created

PBS Timeline 29 June 1906

• San Francisco Earthquake

Wednesday, April 18, 1906 at 5:12 am an earthquake and a four day fire left 3,000 dead and 200,000 homeless out of 450,000 San Francisco population.

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

San Francisco Museum