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.
- 1917 - Tesla invents radar by accident while trying to improve submarine detection equipment.
1920
- 1920 - Tesla invents the charged particle beam.
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.