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Jim Rasenberger , writer ofAmerica , 1908wrote a fascinating patch for the January , 2008 issue ofSmithsonian Magazine . As Rasenberger contends , in 1908 it seemed that anything was possible . An excerpt appear below . The representative of a serviceman with wireless telephone is from Harper ’s Weekly .

The year 1908 began at midnight when a 700 - pound “ electric ball ” fall from the flagpole atop the New York Times building – the first - ever globe - drop in Times Square . It terminate 366 days by and by ( 1908 was a leap year ) with a nearly two - and - a - half - hour flight by Wilbur Wright , the longest ever made in an aeroplane . In the days between , the U.S. Navy ’s Great White Fleet sailed around the world , Adm. Robert Peary began his subjection of the North Pole , Dr. Frederick Cook reached the North Pole ( or claimed to ) , six automobiles set out on a 20,000 - mile race from New York City to Paris , and the Model T went into production at Henry Ford ’s plant in Detroit , Michigan .

See also : All the Music of the Centuries ( 1908)2008 Presidential movement ( 1908)The Air - Ship or One Hundred age Hence ( 1908)Your Own Wireless Telephone ( 1910 )

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