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Year |
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| 1 | 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.
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| 2 | 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.
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| 3 | 1851 | - Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
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| 4 | 1853 | - Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
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| 5 | 1854 | - John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
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| 6 | 1855 | - Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
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| 7 | 1856 | - Cleveland water system goes into operation.
- Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
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| 8 | 1857 | - George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
- James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
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| 9 | 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.
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