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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
 
    
Frank Norris publishes The Octopus, the first of a projected trilogy of novels set in Southern California       
1901
 
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President McKinley is assassinated by an anarchist when visiting the Pan-American exhibition in Buffalo      
Assassination of President McKinley, colour print 1901
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1901
 
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Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes US president on McKinley's death