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| 1 | 1755 | - Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
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| 2 | 1757 | - John Campbell invents the sextant.
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| 3 | 1758 | - Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
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| 4 | 1760 | - George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
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| 5 | 1761 | - Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
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| 6 | 1764 | - James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
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| 7 | 1767 | - Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
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| 8 | 1768 | - Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
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| 9 | 1769 | - James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
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| 10 | 1774 | - Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
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| 11 | 1775 | - Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
- Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
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| 12 | 1776 | - July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence
- David Bushnell invents a submarine.
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| 13 | 1779 | - Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
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| 14 | 1780 | - Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
- Gervinus invents the circular saw.
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| 15 | 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.
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| 16 | 1784 | - Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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| 17 | 1785 | - Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
- Blanchard invents a working parachute.
- Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
- Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
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| 18 | 1786 | - John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 19 | 1789 | - George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- The guillotine is invented.
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| 20 | 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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| 21 | 1791 | - John Barber invents the gas turbine.
- Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
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| 22 | 1792 | - William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
- The first ambulance.
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| 23 | 1794 | - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 24 | 1795 | - Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 25 | 1796 | - Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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| 26 | 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.
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| 27 | 1798 | - Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
- The first soft drink invented.
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| 28 | 1799 | - Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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| 29 | 1800 | - Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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| 30 | 1801 | - Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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| 31 | 1804 | - Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
- Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
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| 32 | 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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| 33 | 1809 | - James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
- Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
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| 34 | 1810 | - May 1810 - Cuyahoga County organized.
- German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
- Peter Durand invents the tin can.
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| 35 | 1811 | - 25 Jan 1811 - Western boundary of Cuyahoga County defined.
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| 36 | 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'.
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| 37 | 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.
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| 38 | 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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| 39 | 1816 | - 1816 was characterized as the year without any summer and frosts occurred during every month of the year.
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| 40 | 1817 | - James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
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| 41 | 1819 | - René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
- Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
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| 42 | 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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| 43 | 1823 | - Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
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| 44 | 1824 | - Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
- Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
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| 45 | 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.
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| 46 | 1827 | - Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
- John Walker invents the modern matches.
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| 47 | 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.
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| 48 | 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.
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| 49 | 1831 | - American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
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| 50 | 1832 | - Cholera epidemic claims 50 or more lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
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| 51 | 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.
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| 52 | 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.
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| 53 | 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.
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| 54 | 1836 | - "Bridge War" between residents of Ohio City and Cleveland.
- Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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| 55 | 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.
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| 56 | 1838 | - Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
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| 57 | 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.
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| 58 | 1840 | - Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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| 59 | 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.
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| 60 | 1842 | - Paving the streets of Cleveland, Ohio commences by laying down planks on the roads.
- Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
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| 61 | 1843 | - Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
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| 62 | 1844 | - Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
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| 63 | 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.
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| 64 | 1846 | - Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
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| 65 | 1847 | - Telegraph line installed between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
- Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
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| 66 | 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.
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| 67 | 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.
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| 68 | 1851 | - Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
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| 69 | 1853 | - Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
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| 70 | 1854 | - John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
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| 71 | 1855 | - Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
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