LIFE 1911
Historical Highlights from 1911 :
- Roald Amundsen becomes the first man to reach South Pole.
- Hiram Bingham discovers the Incan city of Machu Picchu.
- The first feature film is released when the two reels of D.W. Griffith’s Enoch Arden are screened together.
- British physicist Ernest Rutherford discovers the structure of an atom.
- The first Monte Carlo races (Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo) are held.
- Eugene Burton Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship.
- The first Indianapolis 500-mile auto race is run, the winner drives a Marmon ‘Wasp.’
- IBM is incorporated as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
- Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market to compete with the Ford Model T.
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