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Year |
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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 1836 | - "Bridge War" between residents of Ohio City and Cleveland.
- Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 1838 | - Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1840 | - Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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| 8 | 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.
- William H. Harrison president of the USA. William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia 1841.
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| 9 | 1842 | - Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
- Paving the streets of Cleveland, Ohio commences by laying down planks on the roads.
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| 10 | 1843 | - Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
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| 11 | 1844 | - Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
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| 12 | 1845 | - American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
- James Polk president of the USA 1845-1849.
- Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
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| 13 | 1846 | - Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
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| 14 | 1847 | - Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
- Telegraph line installed between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
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| 15 | 1849 | - Street lights are installed in Cleveland.
- Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
- Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office.
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| 16 | 1850 | - Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent.
- Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death.
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| 17 | 1851 | - Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
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| 18 | 1853 | - Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
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| 19 | 1854 | - John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
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| 20 | 1855 | - Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
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| 21 | 1856 | - Cleveland water system goes into operation.
- Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
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| 22 | 1857 | - George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
- James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
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| 23 | 1858 | - First sewers in Cleveland. (Where did everything go prior to this?)
- Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
- Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
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| 24 | 1861 | - 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.
- USA Civil War begins.
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| 25 | 1862 | - Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
- Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
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| 26 | 1863 | - Cleveland starts home delivery of mail.
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| 27 | 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.
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| 28 | 1866 | - Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
- Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
- J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
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| 29 | 1867 | - Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
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| 30 | 1868 | - George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
- J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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| 31 | 1869 | - Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 32 | 1872 | - A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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| 33 | 1873 | - Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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| 34 | 1874 | - American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
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| 35 | 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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| 36 | 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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| 37 | 1878 | - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
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