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| 1 | 1769 | - James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
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| 2 | 1774 | - Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
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| 3 | 1775 | - Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
- Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
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| 4 | 1776 | - David Bushnell invents a submarine.
- July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence
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| 5 | 1779 | - Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
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| 6 | 1780 | - Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
- Gervinus invents the circular saw.
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| 7 | 1783 | - Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
- Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
- Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
- Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
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| 8 | 1784 | - Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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| 9 | 1785 | - Blanchard invents a working parachute.
- Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
- Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
- Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
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| 10 | 1786 | - John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 11 | 1789 | - George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- The guillotine is invented.
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| 12 | 1790 | - The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
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| 13 | 1791 | - Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
- John Barber invents the gas turbine.
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| 14 | 1792 | - The first ambulance.
- William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
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| 15 | 1794 | - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 16 | 1795 | - Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 17 | 1796 | - Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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| 18 | 1797 | - A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
- John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
- Wittemore patents a carding machine.
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| 19 | 1798 | - Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
- The first soft drink invented.
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| 20 | 1799 | - Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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| 21 | 1800 | - Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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| 22 | 1801 | - Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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| 23 | 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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| 24 | 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.
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| 25 | 1809 | - Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
- James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
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| 26 | 1810 | - German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
- May 1810 - Cuyahoga County organized.
- Peter Durand invents the tin can.
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| 27 | 1811 | - 25 Jan 1811 - Western boundary of Cuyahoga County defined.
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| 28 | 1812 | - 18 Jun 1812 - War declared by the United States against the King of Great Britain. The war known as 'The War of 1812'.
- 26 Jun 1812 - Hanging of the Indian 'Omic' in Cleveland.
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| 29 | 1814 | - George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
- German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
- The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
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| 30 | 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.
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| 31 | 1816 | - 1816 was characterized as the year without any summer and frosts occurred during every month of the year.
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| 32 | 1817 | - James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
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| 33 | 1819 | - René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
- Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
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| 34 | 1820 | - George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
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| 35 | 1823 | - Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
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| 36 | 1824 | - Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
- Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
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| 37 | 1825 | - John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
- This year marks the start of construction on the Ohio and Erie Canal.
- William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
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| 38 | 1827 | - Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
- John Walker invents the modern matches.
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| 39 | 1829 | - American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
- Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837.
- Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing.
- William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
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| 40 | 1830 | - Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
- William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
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| 41 | 1831 | - American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
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| 42 | 1832 | - Cholera epidemic claims 50 or more lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
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| 43 | 1833 | - *-* Cleveland Water Company organized by Philo Scovill and several associates.
- 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.
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| 44 | 1834 | - Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
- Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
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| 45 | 1835 | - Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
- Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
- Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography.
- Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
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| 46 | 1836 | - "Bridge War" between residents of Ohio City and Cleveland.
- Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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| 47 | 1837 | - English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
- Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
- Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
- 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.
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| 48 | 1838 | - Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
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