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1900
 
    
The American League emerges from baseball's Western League, before going national in 1901       
1900
 
    
The Voice of the People is the first of Ellen Glasgow's novels set in her native state, Virginia       
1900
 
     
Wilbur and Orville Wright test a biplane glider at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina        
1900
 
   
In the US presidential election William McKinley wins a second term on a simple platform, promising 'the full dinner pail'      
1901
 
    
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge extends the range of his studies with Human Figure in Motion       
1901
 
    
Ransome Eli Olds manufactures the Curved Dash Oldsmobile on assembly line principles in Detroit       
1901
 
    
The concept of instant coffee is developed in Chicago by the Japanese American chemist Satori Kato       
1901
 
    
Frank Lloyd Wright designs low residential buildings, suitable for the plains around Chicago, and calls them Prairie Houses       
1901
 
   
The Texas oil industry is launched with the disovery of the 75,000-barrel-a-day Lucas Gusher near Beaumont      
1901
 
    
Guglielmo Marconi transmits a radio message in Morse code 2100 miles, from Poldhu in Cornwall to St John's in Newfoundland