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| 1 | 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.
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| 2 | 1836 | - "Bridge War" between residents of Ohio City and Cleveland.
- Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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| 3 | 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.
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| 4 | 1838 | - Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
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| 5 | 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.
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| 6 | 1840 | - Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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| 7 | 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.
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| 8 | 1842 | - Paving the streets of Cleveland, Ohio commences by laying down planks on the roads.
- Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
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| 9 | 1843 | - Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
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| 10 | 1844 | - Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
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| 11 | 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.
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| 12 | 1846 | - Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
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| 13 | 1847 | - Telegraph line installed between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
- Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
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| 14 | 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.
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| 15 | 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.
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| 16 | 1851 | - Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
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| 17 | 1853 | - Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
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| 18 | 1854 | - John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
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| 19 | 1855 | - Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
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| 20 | 1856 | - Cleveland water system goes into operation.
- Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
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| 21 | 1857 | - James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
- George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
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| 22 | 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.
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| 23 | 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.
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| 24 | 1862 | - Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
- Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
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| 25 | 1863 | - Cleveland starts home delivery of mail.
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| 26 | 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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| 27 | 1866 | - Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
- J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
- Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
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| 28 | 1867 | - Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
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| 29 | 1868 | - J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
- Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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| 30 | 1869 | - Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 31 | 1872 | - A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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| 32 | 1873 | - Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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| 33 | 1874 | - American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
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| 34 | 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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| 35 | 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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| 36 | 1878 | - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
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| 37 | 1880 | - Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
- The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
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| 38 | 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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| 39 | 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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| 40 | 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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| 41 | 1886 | - John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
- Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
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| 42 | 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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| 43 | 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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| 44 | 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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| 45 | 1891 | - Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
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| 46 | 1892 | - Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
- Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
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| 47 | 1893 | - American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
- Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
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| 48 | 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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| 49 | 1896 | - American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
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| 50 | 1897 | - William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
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| 51 | 1898 | - Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
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| 52 | 1899 | - J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
- I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
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