| 1800 |
|
| 1804 |
-
Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first
person to patent gas
lighting.
-
Richard
Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered
locomotive. Unfortunately, the machine was too heavy and broke the
very rails it was traveling on.
|
| 1809 |
|
| 1810 |
|
| 1814 |
-
George Stephenson designs the first
steam
locomotive.
-
The first plastic surgery is performed
in England.
-
German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents
the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
-
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
was the first person to take a photograph.
He took the picture by setting up a machine called the camera obscura in
the window of his home in France. It took eight hours for the camera to
take the picture.
|
| 1815 |
-
Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
|
| 1819 |
|
| 1823 |
-
Mackintosh
(raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
|
| 1824 |
-
Professor Michael Faraday invents
the first
toy
balloon.
-
Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents
Portland
cement, the modern building material.
|
| 1825 |
|
| 1827 |
|
| 1829 |
|
| 1830 |
|
| 1831 |
|
| 1832 |
|
| 1834 |
|
| 1835 |
|
| 1836 |
-
Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson
co-invent the
propellor.
-
Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
|
| 1837 |
|
| 1838 |
|
| I839 |
-
American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents
platform
scales.
-
American, Charles Goodyear invents
rubber
vulcanization.
-
Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce
co-invent
Daguerreotype
photography.
-
Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a
bicycle.
-
Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives
of the first hydrogen
fuel cell.
|
| 1840 |
-
Englishmen, John Herschel invents the
blueprint.
|
| 1841 |
|
| 1842 |
|
| 1843 |
-
Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents
the facsimile.
|
| 1844 |
-
Englishmen, John Mercer invents
mercerized
cotton.
|
| 1845 |
|
| 1846 |
-
Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts
dentist, is the first to use anesthesia
for tooth extraction.
|
| 1847 |
|
| 1848 |
|
| 1849 |
|
| 1850 |
-
Joel Houghton was granted the first
dishwasher
patent in 1850. The machine was made of wood and required you to hand-turn
a wheel that caused water to splash on the dishes. Houghton's machine barely
worked. The first practical dishwasher was invented by a woman named Josephine
Cochran in 1886. Dishwashers, however, did not begin appearing in homes
until the 1950s.
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