The 1920's The 20's were a time of radical change caused by the many changes happening in technology with new advancements, discoveries, and inventions and is often known as the Roaring Twenties Popular Culture 1920's Due the new technology available allowing movies to have both sound and color the movie industry in Hollywood grew fast as did the number of Cinemas showing the films. In 1919 laws were passed for the Prohibition of consumption and even possession of alcohol making them illegal and due to these laws the 20's provided some of the most well known gangsters a means to create vast wealth by opening illegal bars called speak easiest to provide drinks for the people that required alcoholic beverages. Possibly the most well known of these was Al Capone Music Jazz was the music of popular choice and some of the best known musicians were jazz musicians including Duke Ellington and Al Jolson. One other popular ... Read >

The 1920's The 20's were a time of radical change caused by the many changes happening in technology with new advancements, discoveries, and inventions and is often known as the Roaring Twenties Popular Culture 1920's Due the new technology available allowing movies to have both sound and color the movie industry in Hollywood grew fast as did the number of Cinemas showing the films. In 1919 laws were passed for the Prohibition of consumption and even possession of alcohol making them illegal and due to these laws the 20's provided some of the most well known gangsters a means to create vast wealth by opening illegal bars called speak easiest to provide drinks for the people that required alcoholic beverages. Possibly the most well known of these was Al Capone Music Jazz was the music of popular choice and some of the best known musicians were jazz musicians including Duke Ellington and Al Jolson. One other popular musician ( Composer ) was George Gershwin and many of his songs are still recorded and listened to today. a popular dance of the times was the Charleston Cars Possibly the most significant change during the 1920's was the mass production of the Car started by Henry Ford, he had manufactured and sold some 15 million Model-Ts by 1927 Events At the end of the 20's after a time of excesses in all areas the stock market crash of Black Thursday ( October 24th 1929 ) caused the start of the The Great Depression Fashions During the 20's men's fashions became less stuffy and they tried to look more youthful but women's fashions changed much more drastically with women ( flapper style of clothing ) dressing in a way they felt comfortable with not to accentuate the feminine attributes but as a statement of who they were . Inventions The Year Invented Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use ) Aerosol Sprays ----- 1926 Norway by Erik Rotheim Antibiotics ----- 1928 England by Alexander Fleming Colour Television ----- 1927 Scotland by John Logie Baird Frozen Food ----- 1924 USA by Clarence Birdseye Hair Dryer ----- 1920 Germany Hearing Aid ----- 1923 England Iron Lung ----- 1928 USA by Philip Drinker Liquid Fuel Rocket ----- 1926 USA by Robert Goddard Quartz Time keeping ----- 1927 Switzerland by Hans Wilsdorf from England Sticky Plasters ----- 1920 USA by Earle Dickson Talking Pictures ----- 1927 USA Television ----- 1923 Scotland by John Logie Baird Ultracentrifuge ----- 1923 Sweden by The Suedberg - separates proteins Videophone ----- 1927 USA Show Less <