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Year |
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1 | 1836 | - "Bridge War" between residents of Ohio City and Cleveland.
- Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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2 | 1837 | - English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
- Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
- Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
- Victoria. Ruler of England 1837-1901. House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort.
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3 | 1838 | - Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
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4 | 1839 | - American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
- American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
- Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
- Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
- Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
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5 | 1840 | - Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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6 | 1841 | - John Tyler president of the USA 1841-1845. John Tyler the first vice president to succeed to the presidency due to death of a president.
- Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
- William H. Harrison president of the USA. William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia 1841.
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