1900-1910

Foundation of the Euskalduna Shipbuilding and Repair Company

Foundation of the Vizcaya Bank

The Italian physicist Guillermo Marconi invents the radio by connecting Europe and America through a radiotelegraphic signal

Foundation of Altos Hornos de Vizcaya (AHV) due to the merger of Altos Hornos de Bilbao, La Vizcaya and La Iberia

First sustained flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft by the Wright brothers

Marie Curie receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering Polonium and Radium. Eight years later, in 1911, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering Radiotherapy

The company Federico Echevarría and Sons is established in the Santa Águeda factory in Kastrexana Completion of the works on the Outer Port, Santurtzi breakwater and Getxo breakwater

Inauguration of the monument to Victor Chávarri in Portugalete

Mary Anderson invents the windshield wiper

Melitta Bentz invents the coffee filter

María del Carmen Ortiz invented a device that allowed blind people to write in Braille and Lorens systems (another language less known than the first)