Editing 1904 (section)

=== November ===
* [[November 8]] – [[1904 United States presidential election]]: Republican incumbent [[Theodore Roosevelt]] defeats Democrat [[Alton B. Parker]].
* [[November 16]]
** The settlement at [[Grytviken]], on the British South Atlantic island territory of [[South Georgia Island|South Georgia]], is established by Norwegian sea captain [[Carl Anton Larsen]], as a [[whaling]] station for his ''[[Compañía Argentina de Pesca]]''.<ref>{{cite book|first=R. K.|last=Headland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lZ04AAAAIAAJ|title=The Island of South Georgia|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1984|isbn=0-521-25274-1|access-date=October 29, 2016|archive-date=September 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921000425/http://books.google.com/books?id=lZ04AAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
** English engineer [[John Ambrose Fleming]] patents the first [[thermionic]] [[vacuum tube]], the two-electrode [[diode]] ("oscillation valve" or  [[Fleming valve]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=The Hutchinson Factfinder|publisher=Helicon|year=1999|isbn=978-1-85986-343-5}}</ref>
* [[November 24]] – A [[continuous track]] [[tractor]] is successfully demonstrated by the [[Holt Manufacturing Company]] in the United States. The "caterpillar track" will come to revolutionize construction vehicles and land warfare.
[[File:Leclerc p1040868.jpg|thumb|180px|right| [[July 23]] & [[November 24]]: [[continuous track]]]]