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Hundreds of voters, who included elected officials, people from the music industry and from the media, teachers, and students, were asked in 2001 by the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) and the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) to choose the top 365 songs (not necessarily by Americans) of the 20th century with historical ...
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. According to the Great American Songbook Foundation: . The "Great American Songbook" is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century that have stood the test of time in their life and legacy.
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1826: A patent for the principle of a "gas or vapor engine" is granted to American inventor Samuel Morey. [10] The patent includes the first known design for a carburetor. 1833: A patent for a double-acting gas Lemuel Wellman Wright, UK patent no. 6525, table-type gas engine. Double-acting gas engine, first record of water-jacketed cylinder. [11]
1816 – Robert Stirling invented his hot air Stirling engine, and what we now call a "regenerator". [5] [6] 1821 – Michael Faraday builds an electricity-powered motor. 1824 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot first publishes that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the temperature difference between an engine and its environment.
Maybe you remember uniformed attendants or a time gas was 20 cents a gallon, but it's clear gas stations have changed a lot since the early 20th century.
He also released "Midnight Gasoline," his first album in a dozen years, on Nov. 8. The recording features Dean Dillon, Randy Houser and Chris Stapleton among his collaborators.