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John Carl STANNARD
 1877 - 1940

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   Year  Event(s)
1 1838 
  • Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
2 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.
3 1840 
  • Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
4 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.
5 1842 
  • Paving the streets of Cleveland, Ohio commences by laying down planks on the roads.
  • Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
6 1843 
  • Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
7 1844 
  • Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
8 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.
9 1846 
  • Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
10 1847 
  • Telegraph line installed between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
  • Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
11 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.
12 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.
13 1851 
  • Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
14 1853 
  • Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
15 1854 
  • John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
16 1855 
  • Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
17 1856 
  • Cleveland water system goes into operation.
  • Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
18 1857 
  • James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
  • George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
19 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.
20 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.
21 1862 
  • Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
  • Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
22 1863 
  • Cleveland starts home delivery of mail.
23 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.
24 1866 
  • Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
  • J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
  • Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
25 1867 
  • Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
26 1868 
  • J P Knight invents traffic lights.
  • George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
  • Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
27 1869 
  • Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
28 1872 
  • A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
  • J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
29 1873 
  • Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
30 1874 
  • American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
31 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.
32 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.
33 1878 
  • Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
34 1880 
  • Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
35 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.
36 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.
37 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.
38 1886 
  • John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
39 1887 
  • German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
  • Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
  • F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
40 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.
41 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.
42 1891 
  • Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
43 1892 
  • Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
  • Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
44 1893 
  • American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
  • Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
45 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.
46 1896 
  • American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
47 1897 
  • William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
48 1898 
  • Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
49 1899 
  • J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
  • I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
50 1900 
  • The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
  • Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
51 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.
52 1902 
  • Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
  • French physicist George Claude invents neon light.
  • The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
  • The birth of the Teddy Bear.
53 1903 
  • Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
  • Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
  • The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
  • Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
  • William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
54 1904 
  • Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
  • Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
55 1905 
  • Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
56 1906 
  • William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
57 1907 
  • Austin Powder Co building explodes at its site at the Five Mile Lock on the Cuyahoga River. That location is presently under the Harvard-Denison Bridge.
  • Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
  • The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.
58 1908 
  • The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
  • Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
  • Model T automobile first sold.
  • J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter.
  • Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates.
59 1909 
  • William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
  • Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
60 1910 
  • George V. Ruler of England 1910-1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck. Accession, Jan 20, abdication, Dec 10.
  • Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
  • Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris.
61 1911 
  • Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
62 1912 
  • Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
  • The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
  • Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912.
63 1913 
  • Woodrow Wilson president of the USA 1913-1921.
  • The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
  • The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now known as, ecstasy.
  • Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
  • Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper.
64 1914 
  • Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
65 1915 
  • Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
66 1916 
  • Radio tuners invented that received different stations.
  • Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
67 1918 
  • Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
68 1919 
  • The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
  • Short-wave radio invented.
  • The arc welder invented.
69 1920 
  • The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
  • The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
70 1921 
  • Warren Harding president of the USA 1921. Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921.
  • Calvin Coolidge president of the USA 1921-1929. Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies.
  • Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
  • John Larson, a University of California medical student, invented the modern lie detector (polygraph), used by police since 1924.
71 1922 
  • Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
  • The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
72 1923 
  • Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
  • The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
  • John Harwood invented the self-winding watch.
  • Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
73 1924 
  • The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
  • Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
74 1925 
  • The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
75 1926 
  • Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
76 1927 
  • JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
  • Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
  • Technicolor invented.
  • Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
  • Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
  • Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
77 1928 
  • Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
  • Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
  • Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
78 1929 
  • Herbert Hoover president of the USA 1929-1933.
  • American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
  • Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
79 1930 
  • Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer Richard G. Drew.
  • The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
  • Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.
80 1931 
  • Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
  • Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
81 1932 
  • Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
82 1933 
  • Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
  • Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
  • Stereo records invented.
83 1934 
  • Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
  • Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
84 1935 
  • Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
  • The first canned beer made.
85 1936 
  • Edward VIII. Ruler of England 1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Eldest son of George V.
  • George VI. Ruler of England 1936-1952. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of George V, Duke of York; married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
  • Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
  • Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
86 1937 
  • Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
87 1938 
  • The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
  • Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
  • Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
88 1939 
  • World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.
  • Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
89 1940 
  • Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
  • Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
  
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