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2020 : The new decade
John Logie Baird
bia introduced an electrical recording process on their phonograph records in 1925, resulting in a more lifelike sound.
The first electric razor was patented in 1928 by the Ameri- can manufacturer Col. Jacob Schick.
The first selective Juke- boxes were introduced in 1927 by the Automated Musical Instrument Company.
Clarence Birdseye invent- ed a process for frozen food in 1925.
Charles Lindbergh be- came the first person to
fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from May 20 to 21, 1927. He flew non-stop from New York to Paris.
In 1928, Alexander Flem- ing discovered the penicillin The 1920s is also the dec-
ade in which fashion entered the modern era.
It was the decade in which women first abandoned the more restricting fashions of past years and began to wear more comfortable clothes such as short skirts or trou- sers.
Men also abandoned highly formal daily attire and even
began to wear athletic cloth- ing for the first time. The suits men wear today are still based, for the most part, on those worn in the late 1920s. And the 1920s were a golden age for music and culture.
George Gershwin wrote Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris, and a bur- geoning youth culture includ-
ed the flappers, the flappers and the Charleston.
The tomb of Tutankha- mun was discovered intact by Howard Carter in 1922, spark- ing a second revival of Egypto- mania.
And, Twiglets were in- vented in December 1929 by Frenchman Rondalin Zwa- doodie!