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====1910s==== [[File:BERy Articulated number 2 side view, 1913.jpg|thumb|BERy articulated streetcar no. 2 in 1913. The Boston Elevated Railway was the world's first street railway system to use articulated streetcars.]] * '''1911:''' The [[cloud chamber]], the first [[particle detector]], is invented by [[Charles Thomson Rees Wilson]]. * '''1912:''' The first commercial slot cars or more accurately model electric racing cars operating under constant power were made by Lionel (USA) and appeared in their catalogues in 1912. * '''1912:''' The first use of articulated [[tram]]s by [[Boston Elevated Railway]]. * '''1913:''' The [[Bergius process]] is developed by [[Friedrich Bergius]]. * '''1913:''' The [[Kaplan turbine]] is invented by [[Viktor Kaplan]]. * '''1915:''' [[Harry Brearley]] invents a process to create [[Martensitic stainless steel]], initially labelled Rustless Steel, later marketed as Staybrite, and AISI Type 420.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|date=31 January 1915|title=A non-rusting steel|work=The New York Times}}</ref> * '''1915:''' The first operational military [[tanks]] are designed in Great Britain and France. They are used in battle from 1916 and 1917 respectively. The designers in Great Britain are [[Walter Gordon Wilson|Walter Wilson]] and [[William Tritton]] and in France, [[Eugène Brillié]]. (Although it is known that vehicles incorporating at least some of the features of the tank were designed in a number of countries from 1903 onward, none reached a practical form.) * '''1916:''' The [[Czochralski process]], widely used for the production of single crystal [[silicon]], is invented by [[Jan Czochralski]]. * '''1917:''' The [[crystal oscillator]] is invented by [[Alexander M. Nicholson]] using a crystal of [[Rochelle Salt]] although his priority was disputed by [[Walter Guyton Cady]].
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