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Year |
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| 1 | 1799 | - Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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| 2 | 1800 | - Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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| 3 | 1801 | - Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 1809 | - Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
- James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
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