Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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1800
Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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1801
Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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1804
Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
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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.