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- 1895: Guglielmo Marconi (Italy) invents a system for sending and receiving signals using radio waves, initiating the development of wireless communication
- 1899: Sigmund Freud (Austria) publishes The Interpretation of Dreams (《梦的解析》), suggesting that human beings have an unconscious that affects their thoughts and actions
- 1900: Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio transmission of speech, in the U.S.
- 1903: The Wright brothers conduct the first powered airplane flight, which takes place in the U.S. (with the first public demonstrations in 1908)
- 1903: The first Salon d'Automne (Autumn Salon, 秋季沙龙) is held in Paris, to showcase progressive artists who were sometimes rejected from official Salon exhibitions
- 1905: Albert Einstein (Germany) publishes scientific papers outlining the theory of special relativity, which demonstrates that mass can be converted into energy and that time and space are integrated into a single four-dimensional reality
- 1911: Ernest Rutherford (New Zealand) shows that atoms are composed mostly of empty space
- Cubism (立体主义): the name given to the early abstract techniques of Picasso and Braque