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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 1862 | - Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
- Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
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| 3 | 1863 | - Cleveland starts home delivery of mail.
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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 1867 | - Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
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| 7 | 1868 | - George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
- J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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| 8 | 1869 | - Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 9 | 1872 | - A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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| 10 | 1873 | - Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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| 11 | 1874 | - American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
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| 12 | 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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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 1878 | - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
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| 15 | 1880 | - Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
- The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
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| 16 | 1881 | - Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
- 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.
- David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
- 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.
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| 17 | 1884 | - Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
- George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
- James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
- Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
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| 18 | 1885 | - Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
- Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
- Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
- Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
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| 19 | 1886 | - John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
- Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
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| 20 | 1887 | - Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
- F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
- German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
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