LIFE 1902

Historical Highlights from 1902 :

• Enrico Caruso makes his first gramophone recording.
• Beatrix Potter writes her first Peter Rabbit story.
• The first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
• Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile.
• The Carnegie Institution is founded to promote scientific research with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
• Fire levels 26 city blocks of Jersey City, New Jersey.
• The first J. C. Penney department store opens in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
• Target Corporation, the department store chain, is founded.
• Willis Carrier devises air conditioning in New York City.