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movie theater
French brothers Joseph and Louis Lumiere invent movie projectors and open the first movie theater. -
radio message, first ever
Physicist Sir Oliver Lodge sends the first ever message by radio wave in Oxford, England. -
birth
Aldous Huxley was born into a prominent intellectual family in Godalming, England -
vacuum is invented
The first electric vacuum cleaner is developed. -
The first car
American industrialist and engineer Henry Ford launches the Ford Model T, the world's first truly affordable car. -
early life
He retained enough eyesight to read with difficulty, and he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford -
writing life
He published his first book in 1916 and worked on the periodical Athenaeum from 1919 to 1921. Thereafter he devoted himself largely to his own writing and spent much of his time in Italy until the late 1930s, when he settled in California. -
TV is created
John Logie Baird develops mechanical television. -
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beginning of his career
Huxley established himself as a major author with his first two published novels, Crome Yellow (1921) and Antic Hay (1923); these are witty and malicious satires on the pretensions of the English literary and intellectual coteries of his day. Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point Counter Point (1928) are works in a similar vein. -
refrigerator
The electric refrigerator is invented. -
brave new world
marked a turning point in Huxley’s career: like his earlier work, it is a fundamentally satiric novel, but it also vividly expresses Huxley’s distrust of 20th-century trends in both politics and technology. The novel presents a nightmarish vision of a future society in which psychological conditioning forms the basis for a scientifically determined and immutable caste system that, in turn, obliterates the individual and grants all control to the World State. -
future computer
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent the transistor, which allows electronic equipment to made much smaller and leads to the modern computer revolution. -
computer graphics are made
Ivan Sutherland develops Sketchpad, one of the first computer-aided design programs. -
death
On his deathbed, unable to speak owing to advanced laryngeal cancer, Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for "LSD, 100 µg, intramuscular.