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Sophronia F. POE
 1846 - 1903

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   Year  Event(s)
1 1846 
  • Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
2 1847 
  • Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
  • Telegraph line installed between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
3 1849 
  • Street lights are installed in Cleveland.
  • Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
  • Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office.
4 1850 
  • Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent.
  • Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death.
5 1851 
  • Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
6 1853 
  • Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
7 1854 
  • John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
8 1855 
  • Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
9 1856 
  • Cleveland water system goes into operation.
  • Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
10 1857 
  • George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
  • James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
11 1858 
  • First sewers in Cleveland. (Where did everything go prior to this?)
  • Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
  • Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
12 1861 
  • Abraham Lincoln president of the USA 1861-1865.
  • Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
  • Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
  • USA Civil War begins.
13 1862 
  • Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
  • Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
14 1863 
  • Cleveland starts home delivery of mail.
15 1865 
  • Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 Apr 1865 and dies the next day.
  • Andrew Johnson president of the USA 1865-1869. Andrew Johnson, vice president under Abraham Lincoln, sworn in as president upon Lincoln's death.
16 1866 
  • Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
  • Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
  • J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
17 1867 
  • Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
18 1868 
  • George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
  • J P Knight invents traffic lights.
  • Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
19 1869 
  • Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
20 1872 
  • A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
  • J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
21 1873 
  • Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
22 1874 
  • American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
23 1876 
  • Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
  • Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
  • Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
24 1877 
  • Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
  • Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
  • Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
25 1878 
  • Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
26 1880 
  • Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
27 1881 
  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
  • Chester A. Arthur president of the USA 1881-1885. Chester A. Arthur, vice president under James Garfield, sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield.
  • David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
  • Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
  • James Garfield president of the USA 1881. James Garfield wounded by assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies 19 Sep 1881.
28 1884 
  • Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
  • George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
  • James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
  • Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
29 1885 
  • Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
  • Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
  • Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
  • Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
30 1886 
  • John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
31 1887 
  • Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
  • F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
  • German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
32 1888 
  • John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
  • Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
  • Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
33 1889 
  • Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
  • Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
  • Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
34 1891 
  • Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
35 1892 
  • Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
  • Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
36 1893 
  • American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
  • Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
37 1895 
  • Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
38 1896 
  • American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
39 1897 
  • William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
40 1898 
  • Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
41 1899 
  • I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
  • J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
42 1900 
  • Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
  • The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
43 1901 
  • Edward VII. Ruler of England 1901-1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.
  • Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.
  • King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
  • The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
  • Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley.
44 1902 
  • French physicist George Claude invents neon light.
  • The birth of the Teddy Bear.
  • The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
  • Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
45 1903 
  • Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
  • Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
  • Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
  • The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
  • William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
  
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