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| 1 | 1840 | - 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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| 2 | 1841 | - 1841: William H. Harrison president of the USA. William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia 1841.
- 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.
- 1841: Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
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| 3 | 1842 | - 1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
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| 4 | 1843 | - 1843: Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
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| 5 | 1844 | - 1844: Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
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| 6 | 1845 | - 1845: James Polk president of the USA 1845-1849.
- 1845: American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
- 1845: Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
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| 7 | 1846 | - 1846: Mexican-American War 1846-1848.
- 1846: Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
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| 8 | 1847 | - 1847: Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
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| 9 | 1849 | - 1849: Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office.
- 1849: Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
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| 10 | 1850 | - 1850: Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death.
- 1850: Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent.
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| 11 | 1851 | - 1851: Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
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| 12 | 1853 | - 1853: Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
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| 13 | 1854 | - 1854: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
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| 14 | 1855 | - 1855: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
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| 15 | 1856 | - 1856: Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
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| 16 | 1857 | - 1857: James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
- 1857: George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
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| 17 | 1858 | - 1858: Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
- 1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
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| 18 | 1861 | - 1861: USA Civil War begins.
- 1861: Abraham Lincoln president of the USA 1861-1865.
- 1861: Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
- 1861: Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
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| 19 | 1862 | - 1862: Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
- 1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
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| 20 | 1865 | - 1865: USA Civil War ends.
- 1865: Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 Apr 1865 and dies the next day.
- 1865: 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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| 21 | 1866 | - 1866: Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
- 1866: J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
- 1866: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
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| 22 | 1867 | - 1867: Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
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| 23 | 1868 | - 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
- 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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| 24 | 1869 | - 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 25 | 1872 | - 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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| 26 | 1873 | - 1873: Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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| 27 | 1874 | - 1874: American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
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| 28 | 1876 | - 1876: Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
- 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
- 1876: Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
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| 29 | 1877 | - 1877: Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
- 1877: Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
- 1877: Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
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| 30 | 1878 | - 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
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| 31 | 1880 | - 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
- 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
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| 32 | 1881 | - 1881: James Garfield president of the USA 1881. James Garfield wounded by assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies 19 Sep 1881.
- 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.
- 1881: David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
- 1881: Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
- 1881: Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
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| 33 | 1884 | - 1884: James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
- 1884: Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
- 1884: Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
- 1884: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
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| 34 | 1885 | - 1885: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
- 1885: Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
- 1885: Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
- 1885: Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
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| 35 | 1886 | - 1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
- 1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
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| 36 | 1887 | - 1887: German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
- 1887: Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
- 1887: F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
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| 37 | 1888 | - 1888: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
- 1888: Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
- 1888: Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
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| 38 | 1889 | - 1889: Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
- 1889: Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
- 1889: Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
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| 39 | 1891 | - 1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
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| 40 | 1892 | - 1892: Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
- 1892: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
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| 41 | 1893 | - 1893: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
- 1893: American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
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| 42 | 1895 | - 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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| 43 | 1896 | - 1896: American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
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| 44 | 1897 | - 1897: William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
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| 45 | 1898 | - 1898: Spanish-American War: United States vs Spain 1898.
- 1898: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
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| 46 | 1899 | - 1899: J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
- 1899: I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
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| 47 | 1900 | - 1900: The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
- 1900: Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
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| 48 | 1901 | - 1901: Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley.
- 1901: King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
- 1901: The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
- 1901: Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.
- 1901: Edward VII. Ruler of England 1901-1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.
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| 49 | 1902 | - 1902: Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
- 1902: French physicist George Claude invents neon light.
- 1902: The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
- 1902: The birth of the Teddy Bear.
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1840 - 1902 (62 years) 
