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| 1 | 1727 | - George II. Ruler of England 1727-1760. House of Hanover: Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg.
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| 2 | 1733 | - John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
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| 3 | 1745 | - E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
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| 4 | 1752 | - Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
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| 5 | 1755 | - Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
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| 6 | 1757 | - John Campbell invents the sextant.
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| 7 | 1758 | - Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
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| 8 | 1760 | - George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
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| 9 | 1761 | - Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
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| 10 | 1764 | - James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
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| 11 | 1767 | - Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
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| 12 | 1768 | - Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
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| 13 | 1769 | - James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
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| 14 | 1774 | - Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
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| 15 | 1775 | - Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
- Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
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| 16 | 1776 | - July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence
- David Bushnell invents a submarine.
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| 17 | 1779 | - Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
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| 18 | 1780 | - Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
- Gervinus invents the circular saw.
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| 19 | 1783 | - Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
- Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
- Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
- Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
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| 20 | 1784 | - Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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| 21 | 1785 | - Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
- Blanchard invents a working parachute.
- Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
- Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
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| 22 | 1786 | - John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 23 | 1789 | - George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- The guillotine is invented.
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| 24 | 1790 | - The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
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| 25 | 1791 | - John Barber invents the gas turbine.
- Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
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| 26 | 1792 | - William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
- The first ambulance.
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| 27 | 1794 | - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 28 | 1795 | - Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 29 | 1796 | - Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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| 30 | 1797 | - John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
- A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
- Wittemore patents a carding machine.
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| 31 | 1798 | - Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
- The first soft drink invented.
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| 32 | 1799 | - Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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| 33 | 1800 | - Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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| 34 | 1801 | - Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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| 35 | 1804 | - Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
- Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
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| 36 | 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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| 37 | 1809 | - James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
- Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
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| 38 | 1810 | - May 1810 - Cuyahoga County organized.
- German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
- Peter Durand invents the tin can.
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| 39 | 1811 | - 25 Jan 1811 - Western boundary of Cuyahoga County defined.
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| 40 | 1812 | - 26 Jun 1812 - Hanging of the Indian 'Omic' in Cleveland.
- 18 Jun 1812 - War declared by the United States against the King of Great Britain. The war known as 'The War of 1812'.
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| 41 | 1814 | - George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
- German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
- The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
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| 42 | 1815 | - 23 Sep 1815 - Great September Gale of 1815. The hurricane struck with an 11 foot storm surge to Providence, Rhode Island. New London, Connecticut was also in the path of this great storm, as was Massachusetts and much of New England.
- Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
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| 43 | 1816 | - 1816 was characterized as the year without any summer and frosts occurred during every month of the year.
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| 44 | 1817 | - James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
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| 45 | 1819 | - René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
- Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
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| 46 | 1820 | - George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
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| 47 | 1823 | - Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
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| 48 | 1824 | - Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
- Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
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| 49 | 1825 | - This year marks the start of construction on the Ohio and Erie Canal.
- John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
- William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
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| 50 | 1827 | - Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
- John Walker invents the modern matches.
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| 51 | 1829 | - Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837.
- William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
- Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing.
- American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
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| 52 | 1830 | - William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
- Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
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| 53 | 1831 | - American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
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| 54 | 1832 | - Cholera epidemic claims 50 or more lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
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| 55 | 1833 | - 12 Nov 1833 - 'Night the Stars Fell.' Great Leonid meteor shower seen across most of the U.S. So many meteors fell that the sky appeared to be on fire and in the middle of the night it was not dark.
- *-* Cleveland Water Company organized by Philo Scovill and several associates.
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| 56 | 1834 | - Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
- Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
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| 57 | 1835 | - Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
- Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography.
- Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
- Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
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| 58 | 1836 | - "Bridge War" between residents of Ohio City and Cleveland.
- Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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| 59 | 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.
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| 60 | 1838 | - Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
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| 61 | 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.
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| 62 | 1840 | - Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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| 63 | 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.
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| 64 | 1842 | - Paving the streets of Cleveland, Ohio commences by laying down planks on the roads.
- Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
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| 65 | 1843 | - Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
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| 66 | 1844 | - Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
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| 67 | 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.
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| 68 | 1846 | - Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
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| 69 | 1847 | - Telegraph line installed between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
- Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
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| 70 | 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.
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| 71 | 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.
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| 72 | 1851 | - Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
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| 73 | 1853 | - Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
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| 74 | 1854 | - John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
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| 75 | 1855 | - Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
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| 76 | 1856 | - Cleveland water system goes into operation.
- Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
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| 77 | 1857 | - James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
- George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
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| 78 | 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.
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| 79 | 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.
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| 80 | 1862 | - Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
- Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
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| 81 | 1863 | - Cleveland starts home delivery of mail.
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| 82 | 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.
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| 83 | 1866 | - Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
- J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
- Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
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| 84 | 1867 | - Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
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| 85 | 1868 | - J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
- Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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| 86 | 1869 | - Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 87 | 1872 | - A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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| 88 | 1873 | - Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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| 89 | 1874 | - American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
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| 90 | 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.
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| 91 | 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.
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| 92 | 1878 | - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
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| 93 | 1880 | - Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
- The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
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| 94 | 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.
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| 95 | 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.
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| 96 | 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.
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| 97 | 1886 | - John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
- Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
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| 98 | 1887 | - German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
- Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
- F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
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| 99 | 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.
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| 100 | 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.
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| 101 | 1891 | - Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
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| 102 | 1892 | - Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
- Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
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| 103 | 1893 | - American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
- Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
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| 104 | 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.
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| 105 | 1896 | - American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
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| 106 | 1897 | - William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
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| 107 | 1898 | - Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
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| 108 | 1899 | - J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
- I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
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| 109 | 1900 | - The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
- Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
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| 110 | 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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| 111 | 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.
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| 112 | 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.
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| 113 | 1904 | - Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
- Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
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| 114 | 1905 | - Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
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| 115 | 1906 | - William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
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| 116 | 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.
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| 117 | 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.
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| 118 | 1909 | - William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
- Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
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| 119 | 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.
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| 120 | 1911 | - Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
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| 121 | 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.
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| 122 | 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.
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| 123 | 1914 | - Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
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| 124 | 1915 | - Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
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| 125 | 1916 | - Radio tuners invented that received different stations.
- Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
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| 126 | 1918 | - Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
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