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1836 - 1901

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> 0 - Married Jane R UNKNOWN:

> 1836 - Birth: Abt 1836

> 1860 - Child Lylie WELLS b. Nov 1860

> 1861 - Child Frank WELLS b. 5 Aug 1861

> 1901 - Died: 30 Sep 1901

	Year	Event(s)
1	1836	"Bridge War" between residents of Ohio City and Cleveland. Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
2	1837	Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841. 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. Samuel Morse invents the telegraph. English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
3	1838	Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
4	1839	Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography. Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle. American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization. Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell. American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
5	1840	Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
6	1841	William H. Harrison president of the USA. William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia 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.
7	1842	Paving the streets of Cleveland, Ohio commences by laying down planks on the roads. Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
8	1843	Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
9	1844	Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
10	1845	James Polk president of the USA 1845-1849. American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine. Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
11	1846	Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
12	1847	Telegraph line installed between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
13	1849	Street lights are installed in Cleveland. Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office. Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
14	1850	Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death. Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent.
15	1851	Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
16	1853	Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
17	1854	John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
18	1855	Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
19	1856	Cleveland water system goes into operation. Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
20	1857	James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861. George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
21	1858	First sewers in Cleveland. (Where did everything go prior to this?) Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine. Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
22	1861	USA Civil War begins. 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.
23	1862	Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic. Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
24	1863	Cleveland starts home delivery of mail.
25	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.
26	1866	Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo. J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener. Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
27	1867	Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
28	1868	J P Knight invents traffic lights. George Westinghouse invents air brakes. Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
29	1869	Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
30	1872	A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog. J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
31	1873	Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
32	1874	American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
33	1876	Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine. Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone. Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
34	1877	Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph. Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures. Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
35	1878	Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
36	1880	Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph. The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
37	1881	David Houston patents the roll film for cameras. Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector. 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. 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.
38	1884	James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register. Charles Parson patents the steam turbine. Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen. George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
39	1885	Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. Harim Maxim invents a machine gun. Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle. Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
40	1886	John Pemberton invents Coca Cola. Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
41	1887	German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar. Emile Berliner invents the gramophone. F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
42	1888	John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire. Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer. Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
43	1889	Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder. Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook. Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
44	1891	Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
45	1892	Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask. Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
46	1893	American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper. Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
47	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.
48	1896	American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
49	1897	William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
50	1898	Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
51	1899	J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner. I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
52	1900	The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
53	1901	King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor. The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission. Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner. Edward VII. Ruler of England 1901-1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark. Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley.

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