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| 1 | 1797 | - A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
- John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
- Wittemore patents a carding machine.
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| 2 | 1798 | - Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
- The first soft drink invented.
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| 3 | 1799 | - Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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| 4 | 1800 | - Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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| 5 | 1801 | - Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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| 6 | 1804 | - Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
- Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
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| 7 | 1806 | - A total eclipse of the sun occurred June 1*, 1806. It happened in the forenoon the great obscuration being between eleven and twelve o’clock, when everything had the appearance of night. The fowls hastened to their roosts; the chill of evening came on; and the stars were visible.
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| 8 | 1809 | - Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
- James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
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| 9 | 1810 | - German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
- May 1810 - Cuyahoga County organized.
- Peter Durand invents the tin can.
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| 10 | 1811 | - 25 Jan 1811 - Western boundary of Cuyahoga County defined.
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| 11 | 1812 | - 18 Jun 1812 - War declared by the United States against the King of Great Britain. The war known as 'The War of 1812'.
- 26 Jun 1812 - Hanging of the Indian 'Omic' in Cleveland.
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| 12 | 1814 | - George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
- German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
- The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
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