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> 1868 - Birth: 27 Nov 1868

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> 1732 - Birth: 13 Jul 1732

> 1752 - Married Joseph FULLER: 10 Aug 1752

> 1753 - Child Joshua FULLER b. 11 Jul 1753

	Year	Event(s)
1	1733	John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
2	1745	E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
3	1752	Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
4	1755	Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
5	1757	John Campbell invents the sextant.
6	1758	Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
7	1760	George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
8	1761	Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
9	1764	James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
10	1767	Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
11	1768	Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
12	1769	James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
13	1774	Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
14	1775	Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet. Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
15	1776	July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence David Bushnell invents a submarine.
16	1779	Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
17	1780	Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses. Gervinus invents the circular saw.
18	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.
19	1784	Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine. Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
20	1785	Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance. Blanchard invents a working parachute. Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom. Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
21	1786	John Fitch invents a steamboat.
22	1789	George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797. The guillotine is invented.
23	1790	The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
24	1791	John Barber invents the gas turbine. Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
25	1792	William Murdoch invents gas lighting. The first ambulance.
26	1794	Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin. Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
27	1795	Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
28	1796	Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
29	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.
30	1798	Aloys Senefelder invents lithography. The first soft drink invented.
31	1799	Alessandro Volta invents the battery. Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
32	1800	Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
33	1801	Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
34	1804	Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive. Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
35	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.
36	1809	James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817. Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
37	1810	May 1810 - Cuyahoga County organized. German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press. Peter Durand invents the tin can.
38	1811	25 Jan 1811 - Western boundary of Cuyahoga County defined.
39	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'.
40	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.
41	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.
42	1816	1816 was characterized as the year without any summer and frosts occurred during every month of the year.
43	1817	James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
44	1819	René Laënnec invents the stethoscope. Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
45	1820	George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
46	1823	Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
47	1824	Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon. Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
48	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.
49	1827	Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone. John Walker invents the modern matches.
50	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.
51	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.
52	1831	American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
53	1832	Cholera epidemic claims 50 or more lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
54	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.
55	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.
56	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.
57	1836	"Bridge War" between residents of Ohio City and Cleveland. Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
58	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.
59	1838	Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
60	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.
61	1840	Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
62	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.
63	1842	Paving the streets of Cleveland, Ohio commences by laying down planks on the roads. Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
64	1843	Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
65	1844	Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
66	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.
67	1846	Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
68	1847	Telegraph line installed between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
69	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.
70	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.
71	1851	Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
72	1853	Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
73	1854	John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
74	1855	Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
75	1856	Cleveland water system goes into operation. Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
76	1857	James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861. George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
77	1858	First sewers in Cleveland. (Where did everything go prior to this?) Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine. Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
78	1861	USA Civil War begins. 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.
79	1862	Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic. Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
80	1863	Cleveland starts home delivery of mail.
81	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.
82	1866	Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo. J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener. Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
83	1867	Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
84	1868	J P Knight invents traffic lights. George Westinghouse invents air brakes. Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
85	1869	Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
86	1872	A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog. J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
87	1873	Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
88	1874	American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
89	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.
90	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.
91	1878	Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
92	1880	Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph. The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
93	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.
94	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.
95	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.
96	1886	John Pemberton invents Coca Cola. Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
97	1887	German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar. Emile Berliner invents the gramophone. F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
98	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.
99	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.
100	1891	Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
101	1892	Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask. Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
102	1893	American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper. Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
103	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.
104	1896	American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
105	1897	William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
106	1898	Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
107	1899	J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner. I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
108	1900	The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
109	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.
110	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.
111	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.
112	1904	Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan. Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
113	1905	Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
114	1906	William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
115	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.
116	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.
117	1909	William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913. Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
118	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.
119	1911	Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
120	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.
121	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.
122	1914	Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
123	1915	Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
124	1916	Radio tuners invented that received different stations. Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
125	1918	Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
126	1919	The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite. Short-wave radio invented. The arc welder invented.
127	1920	The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson. The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
128	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.
129	1922	Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting. The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
130	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.
131	1924	The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg. Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
132	1925	The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
133	1926	Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
134	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.
135	1928	Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer. Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
136	1929	Herbert Hoover president of the USA 1929-1933. American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio. Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
137	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.
138	1931	Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography. Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
139	1932	Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
140	1933	Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945. Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong. Stereo records invented.
141	1934	Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly. Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
142	1935	Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.). The first canned beer made.
143	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.
144	1937	Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
145	1938	The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro. Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon. Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
146	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.
147	1940	Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system. Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
148	1941	Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
149	1942	John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
150	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.
151	1944	The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff. Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
152	1945	World War II ends. Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953. The atomic bomb invented.
153	1946	The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
154	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.
155	1948	The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni. Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral. Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
156	1949	Cake mix invented.
157	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.
158	1951	Super glue invented. Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis. Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
159	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.
160	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.
161	1954	Oral contraceptives invented. The first nonstick pan produced. The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson. Ray Kroc started McDonalds.
162	1955	Optic fiber invented.

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