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> 1777 - Birth: 21 Dec 1777

> 1803 - Married Davis METCALF: 17 Apr 1803

	Year	Event(s)
1	1779	Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
2	1780	Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses. Gervinus invents the circular saw.
3	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.
4	1784	Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine. Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
5	1785	Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance. Blanchard invents a working parachute. Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom. Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
6	1786	John Fitch invents a steamboat.
7	1789	George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797. The guillotine is invented.
8	1790	The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
9	1791	John Barber invents the gas turbine. Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
10	1792	William Murdoch invents gas lighting. The first ambulance.
11	1794	Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin. Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
12	1795	Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
13	1796	Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
14	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.
15	1798	Aloys Senefelder invents lithography. The first soft drink invented.
16	1799	Alessandro Volta invents the battery. Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
17	1800	Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
18	1801	Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
19	1804	Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive. Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
20	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.
21	1809	James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817. Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
22	1810	May 1810 - Cuyahoga County organized. German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press. Peter Durand invents the tin can.
23	1811	25 Jan 1811 - Western boundary of Cuyahoga County defined.
24	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'.
25	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.
26	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.
27	1816	1816 was characterized as the year without any summer and frosts occurred during every month of the year.
28	1817	James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
29	1819	René Laënnec invents the stethoscope. Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
30	1820	George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
31	1823	Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
32	1824	Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon. Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
33	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.
34	1827	Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone. John Walker invents the modern matches.
35	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.
36	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.
37	1831	American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
38	1832	Cholera epidemic claims 50 or more lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
39	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.
40	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.
41	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.
42	1836	"Bridge War" between residents of Ohio City and Cleveland. Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
43	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.
44	1838	Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
45	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.
46	1840	Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
47	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.
48	1842	Paving the streets of Cleveland, Ohio commences by laying down planks on the roads. Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
49	1843	Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
50	1844	Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
51	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.
52	1846	Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
53	1847	Telegraph line installed between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
54	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.
55	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.
56	1851	Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
57	1853	Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
58	1854	John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
59	1855	Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
60	1856	Cleveland water system goes into operation. Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
61	1857	James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861. George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
62	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.
63	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.
64	1862	Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic. Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
65	1863	Cleveland starts home delivery of mail.
66	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.
67	1866	Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo. J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener. Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
68	1867	Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
69	1868	J P Knight invents traffic lights. George Westinghouse invents air brakes. Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
70	1869	Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
71	1872	A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog. J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
72	1873	Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
73	1874	American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
74	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.
75	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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