Dark Jazz Timeline

Prior to the 1920s

• 1893 - Nikola Tesla meets and marries Anne Morgan, daughter of J.P Morgan. With investment from his father-in-law, Tesla is able to save Westinghouse from bankruptcy.

• 1894 - Tesla secures the patent for the radio transmitter and receiver.

• 1895 - Tesla-Westinghouse builds Niagara Falls hydroelectric dam.

• 1897 - Tesla-Westinghouse begins marketing diathermic treatments for a variety of medical conditions.

• 1899 - At his laboratory in Telluride, Colorado, Tesla has his first limited success with broadcast power.

• 1900 - Count Von Zeppelin invents the dirigible airship.

• 1901 - Tesla begins research into superconductivity.

• 1902 - Wardenclyffe Tower is built on Long Island.

• 1909 - Tesla receives the Nobel Prize for the invention of radio.

• 1910 - J.P. Morgan Sr. makes a hostile takeover of Consolidated Edison.

• 1913 - J.P. Morgan Sr. dies, leaving his son J.P. Morgan Jr. in charge. Anne Morgan Tesla takes over the radio broadcasting company, Morgan-Tesla, becoming the first woman executive in business history.

• 1916 - Tesla perfects the fluid diode and the bladeless turbine.

1920

• 1920 - Tesla invents radar by accident while trying to improve submarine detection equipment.

1921

• 1921 - Jacques d'Arsonvale wins the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the use of Tesla's diathermic radiation to treat tumors.

1922

• Tesla invents the flivver.

• October - The Greco-Turkish War ends.

1923

• 1923 - The Irish Civil War ends in May.

1924

• 1924 - The Immigration Act of 1924 is signed into law in the United States, including the Asian Exclusion Act.