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The 1890s were a period of rapid technological and cultural change. In the United States,

  • Idaho (1890), Wyoming (1890) and Utah (1896) were admitted to the union.
  • The Weather Bureau was created within the Department of Agriculture.
  • Punch cards were used to tabulate census data.
  • The corrugated cardboard box was invented.
  • The Music Hall in New York (now Carnegie Hall) opened.
  • The first long-distance transmission of alternating current.
  • Thomas Edison developed the kinetoscope.
  • Stanford University was founded.
  • Grover Cleveland was elected President.
  • Nikola Tesla invented the Tesla coil.
  • The immigration station at Ellis Island began operating.
  • The first basketball game was played.
  • The Pledge of Allegiance was composed by Francis Bellamy.
  • Thomas Edison constructed the first motion picture studio.
  • The Chicago World's Fair.
  • A crash on the New York Stock Exchange started a depression.
  • Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.
  • Volleyball was invented.
  • W.E.B. Du Bois received a Ph.D. from Harvard.
  • William McKinley was elected President.
  • The Boston subway began operation.
  • The word "computer" was applied to an electronic device for the first time.
  • The Spanish-American War.
  • The US annexed the Hawaiian Islands
  • Pepsi-Cola was invented.
  • A hurricane destroyed Galveston, Texas, causing the greatest loss of life of any natural disaster in US history.
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