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Palmyra R. GREENE
 1844 - 1863

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   Year  Event(s)
1 1844 
  • Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
2 1845 
  • American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
  • James Polk president of the USA 1845-1849.
  • Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
3 1846 
  • Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
4 1847 
  • Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
  • Telegraph line installed between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
5 1849 
  • Street lights are installed in Cleveland.
  • Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
  • Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office.
6 1850 
  • Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent.
  • Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death.
7 1851 
  • Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
8 1853 
  • Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
9 1854 
  • John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
10 1855 
  • Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
11 1856 
  • Cleveland water system goes into operation.
  • Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
12 1857 
  • George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
  • James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
13 1858 
  • First sewers in Cleveland. (Where did everything go prior to this?)
  • Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
  • Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
14 1861 
  • 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.
  • USA Civil War begins.
15 1862 
  • Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
  • Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
16 1863 
  • Cleveland starts home delivery of mail.
  
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