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Year |
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| 1 | 1872 | - A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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| 2 | 1873 | - Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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| 3 | 1874 | - American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
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| 4 | 1876 | - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
- Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
- Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
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| 5 | 1877 | - Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
- Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
- Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
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| 6 | 1878 | - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
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