The year 1903, when the South China Morning Post first hit the presses, was also a great time for pioneers.
It was the year the Wright brothers made the world a much smaller place by getting the Wright Flyer off the ground for 12 seconds at Kill Devil Hills in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States, on December 17, marking the first airplane flight.
Guglielmo Marconi did his bit to bring us closer together as well, with the first wireless transmission between Europe and the US.
William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson set up shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, and produced the first of what has become a legendary line of motorcycles. For those who really wanted to get around, a 40-year-old engineer from Edison Illuminating Company named Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company.
Life also got a lot more fun in 1903. Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith brought life to the drawings of children for generations to come when they revealed the first box of eight Crayola crayons.
The question of what to do with your jacket when you get home from work was answered that year when a true genius, Albert J. Parkhouse, invented the wire coat hanger.
