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 1818 - 1852

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   Year  Event(s)
1629 
  • Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
1636 
  • W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
1642 
  • Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
1643 
  • Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
1649 
  • Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England 1649-1658. Commonwealth & Protectorate.
1650 
  • Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
1656 
  • Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
1658 
  • Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England 1658-1659. Commonwealth & Proctorate: 3rd son of Oliver. Resigned May 25, 1659.
1660 
  • Charles II. Ruler of England 1660-1685. House of Stuart (restored): Eldest son of Charles I, died without issue. De Jure King from Jan 30, 1649.
  • Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region.
10 1663 
  • James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
11 1668 
  • Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
12 1670 
  • Dom Pérignon invents Champagne.
  • The first reference to a candy cane is made.
13 1671 
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
14 1675 
  • Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch.
15 1676 
  • Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
16 1679 
  • Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
17 1685 
  • James II. Ruler of England 1685-1689. House of Stuart (restored): 2nd son of Charles I. Deposed 1688, interregnum Dec 11, 1688, to Feb 13, 1689.
18 1689 
  • William III and Mary II. Rulers of England 1689-1702. House of Stuart (restored): Son of William, Prince of Orange, by Mary, daughter of Charles I. Mary eldest daughter of James II. She died 1694.
19 1698 
  • Englishman, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
20 1701 
  • Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
21 1702 
  • Anne. Ruler of England 1702-1714. House of Stuart (restored): 2nd daughter of James II. Died with no living heirs.
22 1709 
  • Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
23 1711 
  • Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
24 1712 
  • Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.
25 1714 
  • George I. Ruler of England 1714-1727. House of Hanover: Son of Elector of Hanover, by Sohia, grand-daughter of James I. Proclaimed King under Act of Settlement.
26 1717 
  • Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
27 1722 
  • French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.
28 1724 
  • Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
29 1727 
  • George II. Ruler of England 1727-1760. House of Hanover: Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg.
30 1733 
  • John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
31 1745 
  • E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
32 1752 
  • Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
33 1755 
  • Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
34 1757 
  • John Campbell invents the sextant.
35 1758 
  • Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
36 1760 
  • George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
37 1761 
  • Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
38 1764 
  • James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
39 1767 
  • Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
40 1768 
  • Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
41 1769 
  • James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
42 1774 
  • Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
43 1775 
  • Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
  • Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
44 1776 
  • July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence
  • David Bushnell invents a submarine.
45 1779 
  • Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
46 1780 
  • Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
  • Gervinus invents the circular saw.
47 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.
48 1784 
  • Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
  • Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
49 1785 
  • Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
  • Blanchard invents a working parachute.
  • Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
  • Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
50 1786 
  • John Fitch invents a steamboat.
51 1789 
  • George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
  • The guillotine is invented.
52 1790 
  • The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
53 1791 
  • John Barber invents the gas turbine.
  • Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
54 1792 
  • William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
  • The first ambulance.
55 1794 
  • Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
  • Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
56 1795 
  • Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
57 1796 
  • Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
58 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.
59 1798 
  • Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
  • The first soft drink invented.
60 1799 
  • Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
  • Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
61 1800 
  • Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
62 1801 
  • Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
63 1804 
  • Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
  • Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
64 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.
65 1809 
  • James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
  • Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
66 1810 
  • May 1810 - Cuyahoga County organized.
  • German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
  • Peter Durand invents the tin can.
67 1811 
  • 25 Jan 1811 - Western boundary of Cuyahoga County defined.
68 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'.
69 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.
70 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.
71 1816 
  • 1816 was characterized as the year without any summer and frosts occurred during every month of the year.
72 1817 
  • James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
73 1819 
  • René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
  • Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
74 1820 
  • George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
75 1823 
  • Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
76 1824 
  • Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
  • Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
77 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.
78 1827 
  • Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
  • John Walker invents the modern matches.
79 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.
80 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.
81 1831 
  • American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
82 1832 
  • Cholera epidemic claims 50 or more lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
83 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.
84 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.
85 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.
86 1836 
  • "Bridge War" between residents of Ohio City and Cleveland.
  • Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
87 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.
88 1838 
  • Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
89 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.
90 1840 
  • Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
91 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.
92 1842 
  • Paving the streets of Cleveland, Ohio commences by laying down planks on the roads.
  • Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
93 1843 
  • Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
94 1844 
  • Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
95 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.
96 1846 
  • Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
97 1847 
  • Telegraph line installed between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
  • Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
98 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.
99 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.
100 1851 
  • Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
101 1853 
  • Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
102 1854 
  • John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
103 1855 
  • Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
104 1856 
  • Cleveland water system goes into operation.
  • Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
105 1857 
  • James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
  • George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
106 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.
107 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.
108 1862 
  • Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
  • Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
109 1863 
  • Cleveland starts home delivery of mail.
110 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.
111 1866 
  • Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
  • J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
  • Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
112 1867 
  • Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
113 1868 
  • J P Knight invents traffic lights.
  • George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
  • Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
114 1869 
  • Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
115 1872 
  • A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
  • J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
116 1873 
  • Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
117 1874 
  • American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
118 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.
119 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.
120 1878 
  • Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
121 1880 
  • Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
122 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.
123 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.
124 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.
125 1886 
  • John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
126 1887 
  • German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
  • Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
  • F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
127 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.
128 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.
129 1891 
  • Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
130 1892 
  • Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
  • Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
131 1893 
  • American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
  • Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
132 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.
133 1896 
  • American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
134 1897 
  • William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
135 1898 
  • Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
136 1899 
  • J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
  • I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
137 1900 
  • The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
  • Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
138 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.
139 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.
140 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.
141 1904 
  • Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
  • Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
142 1905 
  • Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
143 1906 
  • William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
144 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.
145 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.
146 1909 
  • William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
  • Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
147 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.
148 1911 
  • Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
149 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.
150 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.
151 1914 
  • Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
152 1915 
  • Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
153 1916 
  • Radio tuners invented that received different stations.
  • Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
154 1918 
  • Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
155 1919 
  • The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
  • Short-wave radio invented.
  • The arc welder invented.
156 1920 
  • The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
  • The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
157 1921 
  • Warren Harding president of the USA 1921. Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921.
  • Calvin Coolidge president of the USA 1921-1929. Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies.
  • Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
  • John Larson, a University of California medical student, invented the modern lie detector (polygraph), used by police since 1924.
158 1922 
  • Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
  • The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
159 1923 
  • Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
  • The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
  • John Harwood invented the self-winding watch.
  • Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
160 1924 
  • The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
  • Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
161 1925 
  • The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
162 1926 
  • Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
163 1927 
  • JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
  • Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
  • Technicolor invented.
  • Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
  • Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
  • Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
164 1928 
  • Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
  • Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
  • Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
165 1929 
  • Herbert Hoover president of the USA 1929-1933.
  • American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
  • Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
166 1930 
  • Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer Richard G. Drew.
  • The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
  • Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.
167 1931 
  • Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
  • Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
168 1932 
  • Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
169 1933 
  • Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
  • Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
  • Stereo records invented.
170 1934 
  • Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
  • Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
171 1935 
  • Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
  • The first canned beer made.
172 1936 
  • Edward VIII. Ruler of England 1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Eldest son of George V.
  • George VI. Ruler of England 1936-1952. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of George V, Duke of York; married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
  • Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
  • Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
173 1937 
  • Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
174 1938 
  • The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
  • Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
  • Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
175 1939 
  • World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.
  • Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
176 1940 
  • Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
  • Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
177 1941 
  • Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
178 1942 
  • John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
179 1943 
  • Richard James invents the slinky.
  • James Wright invent silly putty.
  • Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
  • Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
180 1944 
  • The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
  • Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
181 1945 
  • World War II ends.
  • Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.
  • The atomic bomb invented.
182 1946 
  • The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
183 1947 
  • British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed the theory of holography.
  • Mobile phones first invented.
  • Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor.
  • Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal.
184 1948 
  • The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
  • Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
  • Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
185 1949 
  • Cake mix invented.
186 1950 
  • Korean War: United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China 1950-1953.
  • The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
187 1951 
  • Super glue invented.
  • Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.
  • Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
188 1952 
  • Elizabeth II. Ruler of England 1952-present. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Elder daughter of George VI, acceded Feb 6, 1956.
  • Mr. Potato Head patented.
  • The first patent for bar code (US Patent #2,612,994) issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.
  • The first diet soft drink sold called the "No-Cal Beverage" a gingerale sold by Kirsch.
  • Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb.
189 1953 
  • Dwight Eisenhower president of the USA 1953-1961.
  • Radial tires invented.
  • The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA.
  • Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments.
190 1954 
  • Oral contraceptives invented.
  • The first nonstick pan produced.
  • The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
  • Ray Kroc started McDonalds.
191 1955 
  • Optic fiber invented.
192 1956 
  • The first computer hard disk used.
  • The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.
  • Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter.
193 1957 
  • Fortran (computer language) invented.
194 1958 
  • The modem invented.
  • Gordon Gould invents the laser.
  • The Hula Hoop invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin.
  • The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
195 1959 
  • The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
  • Barbie Doll invented.
  • Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip.
196 1960 
  • USA Vietnam War Begins" "2
  • The halogen lamp invented.
197 1961 
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion: United States vs Cuba 1961.
  • John F. Kennedy president of the USA 1961-1963.
  • Valium invented.
  • The nondairy creamer invented.
198 1962 
  • The audio cassette invented.
  • The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie.
  • Spacewar, the first computer video game invented.
  • Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants.
199 1963 
  • John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas, 22 Nov 1963.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson president of the USA 1963-1969. Lyndon B. Johnson, vice president under John F. Kennedy, sworn in as president aboard Air Force One upon death of Kennedy.
  • The first videodisc invented.
200 1964 
  • Acrylic paint invented.
  • Permanent-press fabric invented.
  • BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz.
201 1965 
  • Astroturf invented.
  • Soft contact lenses invented.
  • NutraSweet invented.
  • The compact disk invented by James Russell.
202 1966 
  • Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented.
203 1967 
  • The first handheld calculator invented.
204 1968 
  • The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
  • The first computer with integrated circuits made.
  • Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).
205 1969 
  • Richard Nixon president of the USA 1969-1974.
  • The arpanet (first internet) invented.
  • The artificial heart invented.
  • The ATM invented.
  • The bar-code scanner is invented.
206 1970 
  • The daisy-wheel printer invented.
  • The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.
207 1971 
  • The dot-matrix printer invented.
  • The food processor invented.
  • The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason.
  • The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.
  • VCR or videocassette recorder invented.
208 1972 
  • The word processor invented.
  • Pong (first video game) invented by Nolan Bushnell.
  • Hacky Sack® invented by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall.
209 1973 
  • Gene splicing invented.
  • The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
  • Bic invents the disposable lighter.
210 1974 
  • Richard M. Nixon first president of USA to resign from office. His decision was announced 8 Aug 1974.
  • Gerald Ford president of the USA 1974-1977.
  • The post-it note invented by Arthur Fry.
  • Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invents liposuction.
211 1975 
  • USA Vietnam War Ends
  • The laser printer invented.
  • The push-through tab on a drink can invented.
212 1976 
  • The ink-jet printer invented.
213 1977 
  • Jimmy Carter president of the USA 1977-1981.
  • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) invented by Raymond V. Damadian.

  
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