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1900 Midland Chemical Company merges into Dow Chemical.
1901 Herbert Dow institutes a profit sharing plan with employees.
1904 Dow establishes its own sales department.
1906 Dow produces its first product for fruits and flowers, giving rise to the company's agricultural chemicals division.

Dow produces sodium benzoate as food preservative.
1908 Agricultural chemicals division established based on a spray for fruit trees.

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1903
Wilbur and Orville Wright successfully fly a powered airplane.

1905
Albert Einstein formulates his Theory of Relativity.

1908
First Model T is produced.

1909
Robert Peary reaches the North Pole.
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