1902 - Arthur Korn[?] devises practical phototelegraphy[?] technology (reduction of photographic images to data bits which can transmitted by wire to other locations); Wire-Photos in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted intercontinentally by 1922.
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February 23 - For $10 million the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
March 3 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person ...