Events from 1910

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1910

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1910 ID: 1191
German Society for Sociology founded in Berlin, with Max Weber and Georg Simmel debating social evolution
ID: 1191
1910 ID: 1192
Eugenics Record Office established, funded by Mrs. E.H. Harriman with over $500,000; Harry Hamilton Laughlin appointed superintendent
ID: 1192
1910 ID: 1193
Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead begin publishing Principia Mathematica - Attempts to derive all mathematics from pure logic
ID: 1193
1910 ID: 1194
Bakelite first sold commercially, launching the age of synthetic plastics
ID: 1194
1910 ID: 1195
Over 25% urban population served by water works
ID: 1195
1910 ID: 1196
New York diphtheria outbreak - 60 cases daily
ID: 1196
1910 ID: 1197
Dr. Millard: 'The danger of unvaccinated persons contracting small-pox... has been somewhat overrated'
ID: 1197
1910 ID: 1198
St. Maximilian Kolbe has vision of two crowns - Our Lady offers white (purity) and red (martyrdom) - 'I choose both!' - prophecy of Auschwitz
ID: 1198
1910 ID: 4278
Frank Gilbreth applies time-motion studies to office work - standardizes filing motions and cabinet heights
ID: 4278
1910 ID: 4284
U.S. Census reports 100,000 stenographers and typists employed - 80% are women, transforming office workforce
ID: 4284
1910 ID: 1189
August 8, 1910
Pope Pius X lowers age for First Communion to 7 years old with decree 'Quam Singulari' - 'The age of discretion for receiving Holy Communion is when a child knows the difference between ordinary bread and the Eucharist'
ID: 1189
1910 ID: 1190
September 1, 1910
Pope Pius X institutes anti-Modernist oath for all clergy in 'Sacrorum Antistitum' - 'I sincerely hold that the doctrine of faith was handed down to us from the apostles through the orthodox Fathers'
ID: 1190
1910 ID: 368
December 1910
Russell and Whitehead publish Volume 1 of Principia Mathematica, attempting to derive all mathematics from logical foundations
ID: 368
Cambridge University

Books & Texts from 1910

📖 gaston-leroux - the-phantom-of-the-opera
📖 irwin-leslie-gordon - who-was-who-5000-bc-to-date
📖 bernard-shaw - misalliance
📖 margaret-mayo - baby-mine
📖 bernard-shaw - treatise-on-parents-and-children
📖 john-buchan - prester-john
📖 martha-young - somebodys-little-girl
📖 jack-london - burning-daylight
📖 victor-appleton - tom-swift-and-his-electric-runabout-or-the-speediest-car-on-the-road
📖 sunzi-translated-by-lionel-giles - the-art-of-war
📖 joseph-conrad - the-secret-sharer
📖 victor-appleton - tom-swift-and-his-submarine-boat-or-under-the-ocean-for-sunken-treasure
📖 herbert-newton-casson - the-history-of-the-telephone
📖 rudyard-kipling - rewards-and-fairies
📖 stories-from-everybodys-magazine
📖 frank-lewis-dyer-and-thomas-commerford-martin - edison-his-life-and-inventions
📖 william-j-jackman-and-octave-chanute-and-thomas-herbert-russell - flying-machines-construction-and-operation
📖 l-frank-baum - the-emerald-city-of-oz