Panama Canal Leadership
Goethals assumes command as chief engineer and chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission.
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1907 in United States of America
Explore 18 historical events and records for United States of America in 1907.
Historical records for United States of America in 1907
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Panic of 1907
Morgan coordinates private support for banks and trusts during the financial panic.
Panic Gold Reserve Defence
During the Panic of 1907, Treasury measures and large gold imports help preserve bank liquidity and maintain confidence in dollar convertibility.
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Accelerated Frames and Gravitation
Extends special-relativistic reasoning to accelerated motion and concludes that gravitation must alter measurements of time, frequency and the propagation of light.
Bakelite
Creates a heat-resistant synthetic resin later named Bakelite.
Birth of John Wayne
Birth of John Wayne, Marion Michael Morrison
Conference of Hague
Proposes an International Court of Justice which is established in 1920. Produces conventions on the conduct of war. Leads the Conference at The Hague
Drama
Florenz Ziegfeld launches the Ziegfeld Follies, elaborate musical stage shows, starring such performers as Billie Burke, Fannie Brice, W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers
Equivalence Principle
Formulates the equivalence principle, a decisive step toward a relativistic theory of gravitation.
Equivalence Principle
Recognises that a uniformly accelerated frame is locally equivalent to a homogeneous gravitational field, establishing the conceptual starting point for general relativity.
First Fully Synthetic Plastic
Introduces a mouldable electrical insulator suited to mass manufacturing.
Gravitational Redshift
Predicts that gravity should shift the frequency of light, later called gravitational redshift.
International Court of Justice
Proposes an International Court of Justice which is established in 1920
Nobel Prize
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing precision optical instruments and for spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with them.
Panama Canal
Taft helps supervise the beginning of construction on the Panama Canal
Quantum Theory of Specific Heat
Applies quantum ideas to the specific heat of solids, an early success of quantum theory.
Uranium Lead Dating
Uses uranium-lead ratios to estimate geological ages.
Ziegfeld Follies
Florenz Ziegfeld launches the Ziegfeld Follies, elaborate musical stage shows, starring such performers as Billie Burke, Fannie Brice, W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers
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