New Inventions of the 1930s

Inventions of the 1930s

Fun Facts

Important Inventions

• Monopoly was considered to be a very ironic game because it's a game that deals with money and it was created during the Great Depression (1930s).
• The invention of the chocolate chip cookie was an accident.
• The first electric guitar, invented in 1931, was called a "frying pan" because its shape resembled a frying pan.
• By the late 1930s four out of five households had an FM radio.
• In the 1930s one crazy invention they had was the baby cage, which was a cage that hung out the window for the baby to be held in to save room in the apartment or house.

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• Robert Watson-Watt invented the radar in 1935 which was found to be useful to locate airmen and later in the future help in WWII.
• In 1930 the analog computer was invented by Vannevar Bush. The analog computer was useful because it was used to control guns on a warship. Also the analog computer lead to the computers we are use to today.
• In 1935 the ballpoint pen was invented by Lazlo Biro. This can be considered important because it was the first non-leaking pen and is a well-known and used object today.
• In 1937, Robert Goddard launched the first rocket which showed and inspired others that there was a way to reach extreme altitudes.

Inventions of the 1930s

• 1930: Clarence Birdseye patents the frozen food process.
• 1930: Richard G. Drew, a 3M engineer patents scotch tape.
• 1930: Ruth Wakefield invents chocolate chip cookies.
• 1931: Strobe lighting and stop-action photography is invented by Harold Edgerton.
• 1932: Polaroid photography is invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
• 1933: Frequency modulation, or the FM radio is invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
• 1934: The game of Monopoly is claimed to be invented by Charles Darrow.
• 1934: Percy Shaw invents cat eyes (road reflectors).
• 1935: Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon, a type of fabric.
• 1936: Colt revolver gets patented by Samuel Colt.
• 1937: Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
• 1938: Nescafe (freeze-dried coffee) is invented.

The Industrial Thirties

The 1930s was also known as the Industrial Thirties because it marked a time of new inventions and technologies being produced.