The Roaring Twenties!

Did the 1920s really roar?
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Inventors and Business People

Musicians | Writers | Leaders | Adventurers & Entertainers | Artists | Inventors & Business People | Sport Stars

Wright Brothers

Wright Brothers Plane Orville seated in Wright airplane with Albert B. Lambert before takeoff; Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio].CREATED/PUBLISHED [1910 May 18]

 

Gugliemo Marconi

 

David Sarnoff

radio

Pugilist, (boxer) Jack Dempsey, touching a knob on a radio that he is sitting next to. Chicago Daily News, Inc., 1927.

 

Madame CJ Walker

Perfume bottle and powder puff canister

 

Al Capone

Al Capone's mug shot, 1931. (CHS DN-91508)

Henry Ford

America's Library

America's Library: Henry Ford Museum

Time Magazine

 

Wright Brothers

America's Library

America's Library: Kitty Hawk

Time Magazine

Library of Congress: Wilbur Wright Letter

Library of Congress: Telegram

 

Gugliemo Marconi

PBS

PBS

U.S. Marconi Museum

 

Thomas Edison

America's Library

PBS

PBS: Original Recordings

 

David Sarnoff

PBS

PBS2

PBS: Timeline

Time Magazine

 

Madame CJ Walker

Official Biography Site

Princeton University: African Americans in the Sciences

National Park Service

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Al Capone

PBS

Chicago Historical Society

FBI
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