Monopoly grew out of a game against monopolies.
In 1904 Elizabeth Magie patented The Landlord's Game to show the evils of land grabbing; in 1935 it became the basis for Monopoly.
More amazing facts
- 1903 · 1961 · 1969 Just 58 years separate the Wright brothers' first flight from Gagarin's, and 66 from the Moon landing — some who saw the first airplanes lived to see the Moon.
- 1903 The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wingspan: Orville covered 37 metres, while the first jumbo jet's wings spanned about 60.
- 1903 · 1969 Bits of the Wright Flyer have been to the Moon and Mars.
- 1903 Tsiolkovsky published his rocket equation in 1903 — the year the Wright brothers first flew.
- 1903 · 1913 Just ten years after the Wright brothers' first flight, a plane with a toilet took off. Sikorsky's four-engined Ilya Muromets of 1913 also had a heated cabin, a bedroom and electric light.
- 1904 The first Russian Nobel laureate was the physiologist Ivan Pavlov in 1904 — honoured not for his famous conditioned reflexes but for his work on digestion.