Maserati 90 Year Celebrations


	Maserati - Spanning 90 Years of History On December 1st, 1914 Alfieri Maserati founded "Società Anonima Officine Alfieri Maserati", at Via de'Pepoli 11 in Bologna. The company specialised in preparing cars for road racing. This date marks the beginning of the history of one of the most glorious marques in the automotive world. In 2004 Maserati reached another important goal, celebrating its 90 years with a unique event. Celebrations took place on the 17th, 18th and 19th September 2004 with cars travelling on a route from Milan to Rome, stopping at the factory in Modena. Centrepiece of these celebrations were 90 Maserati Spyder and Coupé models from the current range. These cars were decorated to commemorate an important international event for each of the last 90 years - for example, the year 1969 was represented by man's first landing on the moon. 3M decorated the cars with special adhesive film - 3M Scotchprint® Graphics, which allow extraordinary quality in the reproduction of images.


	1944-1958	1959-1973	1974-1988	1989-2004	1914-1928	1929-1943

YOU MAY CLICK ON ANY IMAGE FOR A CLOSER LOOK!

	1929 3M invents Scotch® Tape 3M invents the first roll of sticky tape which becomes known as Scotch® Tape and will soon be found in every home and office.



	1930 Marconi lets light into Sydney In March 1930 Guglielmo Marconi uses a radio signal to turn on the lights of the city of Sydney, Australia, from the ship Elettra docked in the port of Genoa, Italy, 14,000 miles away.



	1931 Empire State Building The Empire State Building is opened on May 1st 1931 after 14 months of work and becomes the world's most famous skyscraper.



	1932 The legendary Greta Garbo Greta Garbo's beauty and talent light up the screen in the film Mata Hari, turning the Swedish actress into a star in the US.



	1933 Rex wins the "Nastro Azzurro" The Italian transatlantic liner Rex goes down in history after winning the famous Blue Ribband for setting a new Atlantic crossing record.



	1934 Agatha Christie: 'Murder on the Orient Express' Crime writer Agatha Christie publishes Murder on the Orient Express which quickly becomes a worldwide best-seller read by millions of people.



	1935 Sir Robert Watson-Watt invents the radar British physicist Sir Robert Watson-Watt invents the radar, an electronic device which bounces radio waves off objects to measure the distance to their location.



	1936 F.L. Wright - Fallingwater Architect Frank Lloyd Wright designs the radical Fallingwater, the house at a waterfall at Bear Run, Pennsylvania. It becomes one of America's greatest architectural icons.



	1937 The Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, a two-kilometre long miracle of engineering dubbed "the bridge that shouldn't be", is completed at a cost of $35 million.



	1938 Enrico Fermi - Nobel Prize for Physics Enrico Fermi receives the Nobel Prize for Physics for his research into artificial radioactivity and slow neutrons.



	1939 Maserati wins at Indianapolis Wilbur Shaw's Maserati wins the Indianapolis 500 in 4 hours 20 mins after 200 laps. The 'Casa del Tridente' remains the only Italian marque ever to have won the race.



	1940 Orson Wells - "Citizen Kane" Orson Wells directs Citizen Kane, a film that hails a revolution in narrative and cinematic technique with its innovative, expressionistic use of the camera.



	1941 The Enigma Code is cracked British secret service agents break the Enigma Code and help lay the foundation for an Allied victory in the Second World War.



	1942 Casablanca Michael Curtiz directs Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, which becomes one of the most famous films in cinematic history.



	1943 Konrad Lorenz and Imprinting The father of Imprinting Konrad Lorenz writes 'King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animal Ways', a work that provides a fascinating insight into human and animal behaviour.


1944-1958	1959-1973	1974-1988	1989-2004	1914-1928	1929-1943