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- Orville and Wilbur Wright begin the era of powered flight at Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- 美国 阿伊达 d'Acosta becomes the first woman pilot when she flies a Santos-Dumont dirigible in Paris.
- Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen begins the first successful navigation of the Northwest Passage.
- Voters authorize the creation of the New York State Barge Canal.
- 的 first stage of New York City's 地铁 system nears completion.
- 的 Williamsburg Bridge carries its first traffic between Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- 的 别克 Motor Co. is founded in Flint, Michigan.
- 的 福特 Motor Co. is incorporated in Detroit, Michigan.
- 威廉年代. Harley and Walter and Arthur Davidson build their first 摩托车 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson of Burlington, Vermont, completes the first transcontinental automobile trip, from San Francisco to New York. 的 United States has about 8,000 cars but only about 150 miles of paved roads.
- New York City enacts the first automobile traffic code.
- Massachusetts and Missouri begin to issue driver's licenses.
- Mary Anderson invents the windshield wiper.
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