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Year |
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1 | 1872 | - A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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2 | 1873 | - Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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3 | 1874 | - American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
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4 | 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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5 | 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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6 | 1878 | - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
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7 | 1880 | - Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
- The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
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8 | 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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9 | 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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