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Year |
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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 1836 | - "Bridge War" between residents of Ohio City and Cleveland.
- Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 1838 | - Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
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| 7 | 1839 | - American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
- American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
- Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
- Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
- Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
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| 8 | 1840 | - Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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