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| 1 | 1868 | - J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
- Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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| 2 | 1869 | - Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 3 | 1872 | - A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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| 4 | 1873 | - Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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| 5 | 1874 | - American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
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| 6 | 1876 | - Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
- Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
- Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
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| 7 | 1877 | - Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
- Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
- Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
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| 8 | 1878 | - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
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| 9 | 1880 | - Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
- The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
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| 10 | 1881 | - David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
- Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
- Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
- James Garfield president of the USA 1881. James Garfield wounded by assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies 19 Sep 1881.
- Chester A. Arthur president of the USA 1881-1885. Chester A. Arthur, vice president under James Garfield, sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield.
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| 11 | 1884 | - James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
- Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
- Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
- George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
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| 12 | 1885 | - Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
- Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
- Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
- Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
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| 13 | 1886 | - John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
- Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
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| 14 | 1887 | - German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
- Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
- F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
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| 15 | 1888 | - John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
- Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
- Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
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| 16 | 1889 | - Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
- Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
- Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
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| 17 | 1891 | - Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
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| 18 | 1892 | - Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
- Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
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| 19 | 1893 | - American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
- Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
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| 20 | 1895 | - Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
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| 21 | 1896 | - American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
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| 22 | 1897 | - William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
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| 23 | 1898 | - Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
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| 24 | 1899 | - J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
- I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
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| 25 | 1900 | - The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
- Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
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| 26 | 1901 | - King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
- The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
- Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.
- Edward VII. Ruler of England 1901-1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.
- Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley.
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| 27 | 1902 | - Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
- French physicist George Claude invents neon light.
- The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
- The birth of the Teddy Bear.
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| 28 | 1903 | - Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
- Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
- The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
- Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
- William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
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| 29 | 1904 | - Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
- Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
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| 30 | 1905 | - Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
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| 31 | 1906 | - William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
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| 32 | 1907 | - Austin Powder Co building explodes at its site at the Five Mile Lock on the Cuyahoga River. That location is presently under the Harvard-Denison Bridge.
- Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
- The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.
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| 33 | 1908 | - The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
- Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
- Model T automobile first sold.
- J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter.
- Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates.
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| 34 | 1909 | - William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
- Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
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| 35 | 1910 | - George V. Ruler of England 1910-1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck. Accession, Jan 20, abdication, Dec 10.
- Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
- Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris.
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| 36 | 1911 | - Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
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| 37 | 1912 | - Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
- The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
- Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912.
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| 38 | 1913 | - Woodrow Wilson president of the USA 1913-1921.
- The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
- The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now known as, ecstasy.
- Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
- Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper.
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| 39 | 1914 | - Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
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| 40 | 1915 | - Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
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| 41 | 1916 | - Radio tuners invented that received different stations.
- Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
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| 42 | 1918 | - Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
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| 43 | 1919 | - The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
- Short-wave radio invented.
- The arc welder invented.
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| 44 | 1920 | - The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
- The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
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| 45 | 1921 | - Warren Harding president of the USA 1921. Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921.
- Calvin Coolidge president of the USA 1921-1929. Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies.
- Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
- John Larson, a University of California medical student, invented the modern lie detector (polygraph), used by police since 1924.
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| 46 | 1922 | - Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
- The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
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| 47 | 1923 | - Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
- The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
- John Harwood invented the self-winding watch.
- Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
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| 48 | 1924 | - The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
- Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
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| 49 | 1925 | - The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
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| 50 | 1926 | - Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
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| 51 | 1927 | - JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
- Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
- Technicolor invented.
- Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
- Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
- Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
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| 52 | 1928 | - Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
- Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
- Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
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| 53 | 1929 | - Herbert Hoover president of the USA 1929-1933.
- American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
- Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
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| 54 | 1930 | - Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer Richard G. Drew.
- The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
- Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.
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| 55 | 1931 | - Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
- Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
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| 56 | 1932 | - Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
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| 57 | 1933 | - Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
- Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
- Stereo records invented.
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| 58 | 1934 | - Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
- Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
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| 59 | 1935 | - Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
- The first canned beer made.
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| 60 | 1936 | - Edward VIII. Ruler of England 1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Eldest son of George V.
- George VI. Ruler of England 1936-1952. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of George V, Duke of York; married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
- Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
- Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
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| 61 | 1937 | - Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
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| 62 | 1938 | - The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
- Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
- Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
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| 63 | 1939 | - World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.
- Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
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| 64 | 1940 | - Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
- Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
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| 65 | 1941 | - Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
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| 66 | 1942 | - John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
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| 67 | 1943 | - Richard James invents the slinky.
- James Wright invent silly putty.
- Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
- Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
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| 68 | 1944 | - The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
- Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
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| 69 | 1945 | - World War II ends.
- Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.
- The atomic bomb invented.
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| 70 | 1946 | - The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
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| 71 | 1947 | - British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed the theory of holography.
- Mobile phones first invented.
- Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor.
- Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal.
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| 72 | 1948 | - The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
- Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
- Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
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| 73 | 1949 | |
| 74 | 1950 | - Korean War: United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China 1950-1953.
- The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
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| 75 | 1951 | - Super glue invented.
- Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.
- Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
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| 76 | 1952 | - Elizabeth II. Ruler of England 1952-present. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Elder daughter of George VI, acceded Feb 6, 1956.
- Mr. Potato Head patented.
- The first patent for bar code (US Patent #2,612,994) issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.
- The first diet soft drink sold called the "No-Cal Beverage" a gingerale sold by Kirsch.
- Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb.
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| 77 | 1953 | - Dwight Eisenhower president of the USA 1953-1961.
- Radial tires invented.
- The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA.
- Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments.
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| 78 | 1954 | - Oral contraceptives invented.
- The first nonstick pan produced.
- The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
- Ray Kroc started McDonalds.
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| 79 | 1955 | |
| 80 | 1956 | - The first computer hard disk used.
- The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.
- Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter.
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| 81 | 1957 | - Fortran (computer language) invented.
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| 82 | 1958 | - The modem invented.
- Gordon Gould invents the laser.
- The Hula Hoop invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin.
- The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
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| 83 | 1959 | - The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
- Barbie Doll invented.
- Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip.
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| 84 | 1960 | - USA Vietnam War Begins"
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- The halogen lamp invented.
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| 85 | 1961 | - Bay of Pigs Invasion: United States vs Cuba 1961.
- John F. Kennedy president of the USA 1961-1963.
- Valium invented.
- The nondairy creamer invented.
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| 86 | 1962 | - The audio cassette invented.
- The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie.
- Spacewar, the first computer video game invented.
- Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants.
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| 87 | 1963 | - John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas, 22 Nov 1963.
- Lyndon B. Johnson president of the USA 1963-1969. Lyndon B. Johnson, vice president under John F. Kennedy, sworn in as president aboard Air Force One upon death of Kennedy.
- The first videodisc invented.
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| 88 | 1964 | - Acrylic paint invented.
- Permanent-press fabric invented.
- BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz.
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| 89 | 1965 | - Astroturf invented.
- Soft contact lenses invented.
- NutraSweet invented.
- The compact disk invented by James Russell.
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| 90 | 1966 | - Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented.
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| 91 | 1967 | - The first handheld calculator invented.
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| 92 | 1968 | - The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
- The first computer with integrated circuits made.
- Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).
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