1898 Facts
Spanish American War declared April 25 and ended August 12.
The US annexes The Hawaiian Islands.
Pepsi Cola was introduced.
Flash bulbs and Offset printing invented.
Steak sold for 10¢ per pound.
Robert Allison of Pensylvania bought the first American made automobile; the Winton advertised in Scientific American.
Neon was discovered by William Ramsay and Morris Travers.
Paris jeweler Alfred Cartier takes his sons into the business and opens a new shop.
Union Carbide Company is founded by Chicago entrepreneurs to manufacture calcium carbide for producing acetylene gas for streetlights and home lighting.
U.S. motorcar production reaches 1,000, up from 100 last year.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is founded at Akron, OH, by local entrepreneur and inventor Frank A. Seiberling, 38. Workers earned wages of 13¢ to 25¢ per hour on a production line turning out bicycle, carriage tires and horseshoe pads.
The New York Times drops its price from 3¢ to 1¢ and circulation triples to 75,000.
Campbell's Soup was 10¢ per can.
Polish-born French physical chemist Marie (Marja) Curie (née Sklodowska), 31, and her husband, Pierre, 39, isolate radium, the first important radioactive element |
