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Year |
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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 1843 | - Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
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| 3 | 1844 | - Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 1846 | - Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
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| 6 | 1847 | - Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
- Telegraph line installed between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 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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| 9 | 1851 | - Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
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| 10 | 1853 | - Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
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| 11 | 1854 | - John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
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| 12 | 1855 | - Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
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| 13 | 1856 | - Cleveland water system goes into operation.
- Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
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| 14 | 1857 | - George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
- James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
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