| 1851 |
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| 1852 |
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| 1853 |
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| 1854 |
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| 1855 |
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| 1856 |
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| 1857 |
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| 1858 |
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| 1861 |
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Elisha Otis patents
elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
-
Pierre Michaux
invents a bicycle.
-
Linus Yale invents
the Yale lock
or cylinder lock.
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| 1862 |
-
Dr. Richard Gatling patents the
machine
gun.
-
Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made
plastic.
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| 1866 |
-
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
-
J. Osterhoudt patents the tin
can with a key opener.
-
Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents
a torpedo.
|
| 1867 |
-
Christopher Scholes invents the first
practical and modern typewriter.
|
| 1868 |
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| 1872 |
-
J.S. Risdon patents the metal
windmill.
-
A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order
catalog.
|
| 1873 |
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| 1874 |
-
American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the
shoe
welt stitcher.
|
| 1876 |
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| 1877 |
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| 1878 |
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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first
person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
|
| 1880 |
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The British Perforated Paper Company
invents a form of toilet paper.
-
Englishmen, John
Milne invents the modern seismograph.
|
| 1881 |
-
Alexander Graham Bell invents the first
crude metal
detector.
-
David Houston patents the roll film
for cameras.
-
Edward Leveaux patents the automatic
player piano.
|
| 1884 |
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| 1885 |
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| 1886 |
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| 1887 |
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| 1888 |
-
Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding
process to manufacture the first paper drinking
straws.
-
John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially
successful pneumatic
tire.
-
Nikola
Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
|
| 1889 |
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Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
-
Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel
co-invent Cordite
- a type of smokeless gunpowder.
|
| 1891 |
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| 1892 |
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| 1893 |
-
American, W.L. Judson invents the
zipper.
-
Edward Goodrich Acheson invents
carborundum.
|
| 1895 |
- Lumiere Brothers invent a portable
motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe.
- Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe
are the first to present a projected motion
picture to an audience of more that one person.
|
| 1896 |
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American, H. O'Sullivan invents the
rubber
heel.
|
| 1898 |
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Edwin Prescott patents the roller
coaster.
-
Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845
for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel
engine.
|
| 1899 |
-
I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle
frame.
-
J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven
vacuum
cleaner.
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