Time Line

(1900)         

Elizabeth Peet comes aboard as female faculty and Dean of Women where she serves until 1950.

(1901)

             The first electric hearing aid (radio aid) is developed.

(1910’s)-1950’s

Deaf Employment Skyrockets

While deaf people are not allowed to serve in the U.S. military during World War I and World War II, wartime labor shortages provide many new job opportunities for deaf people. Many take manufacturing jobs, and new deaf communities, such as the one based around the Goodyear plant in Akron, Ohio, flourish. Meanwhile, in Europe, entire companies of deaf soldiers take up arms. In the field, commands are given using special signs that can be seen at a distance.

LABOR AND THE WAR EFFORT

(1914)

             Edwin Nies is the first deaf person to earn a Doctor of Dental Sciences. He earns the degree             from the University of Pennsylvania.

1916-1920

             Deaf women begin an era of female leadership of state associations. Annie Lashbrook and             Alice Terry are elected as Presidents of the Empire State Association of the Deaf and the             California Association of the Deaf respectively. Olga Anderson presides over the North Dakota             Association of the Deaf.

1880-(1920)Deaf Players Change Baseball and Football

In 1901, baseball's American League gets its first grand slam thanks to William "Dummy" Hoy, a deaf player. Umpire hand signals are developed so that Hoy can see a strike call from the outfield.

In the 1920s, Gallaudet University's football team keeps its plays a secret by hiding signed instructions in a huddle formation. Soon, other teams are huddling up too, and a football tradition is born.

WILLIAM "DUMMY" HOY (TOP)GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL TEAM IN HUDDLE (BOTTOM)

(1921)

             Earl C. Hanson patents the first vacuum-tube hearing aid.

(1924)

             The International Committee of Silent Sports (CISS) iss founded on August 16 by E. Rubens             Alcais of France and Antoine Dresse of Belgium following the first International Games for the             Deaf which were held in Pershing Stadium in Paris. The first games to take place in the United             States took place in 1965 in Washington, DC.

(1945)

             The American Athletic Association of the Deaf is established in Akron, Ohio at the end of the             World War II era where the Deaf had established a colony in Akron, Ohio, working for             Firestone and established themselves as workers with good ethics and as good patriots.

(1947)

             The first deaf aviator to fly coast to coast is Rhulin A. Thomas of Washington, D.C.

Rhulin A. Thomas, who in 1947 became the first deaf person to successfully fly solo coast-to-coast, a radio useless to warn of electrical storms and other perils.

The trip's purpose was to prove that deafness was not a liability to pilots.

Although the very first deaf pilot to cross the country was Calbraith Perry Rodgers, a curmudgeonly character who took the trek in 1911, ...

(1950)

             Behind the ear hearing aid becomes available. Transistor hearing aid also appears on the             market.

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