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by browsing 1800-1810 1800-Volta produces first battery of zinc and copper plates 1800- Eli Whitney makes muskets with interchangeable parts 1807- Fulton’s paddle steamer "Clermont" navigates on Hudson River 1807- Street lighting by gas in London 1907- England prohibits slave trade 1810- Appert develops techniques for canning food 1810-1820 1813- Last gold guinea coins issued in England 1815- Davy invents miner's safety lamp 1816- Brewster invents kaleidoscope 1816- Laennec invents stethoscope 1818- First professional horse racing in US 1819- Napier constructs the flat-bed cylinder press for printing 1819- Maximum 12 hour working days for juveniles in England 1820-1830 1821- US population- 9.6 million 1822- Streets of Boston lit by gas 1822- London's Sunday Times is founded 1824- Erie Canal is completed 1825- London has horse drawn busses 1825- Stockton-Darlington Railroad is the first to carry passengers 1827- John Walker introduces sulfur friction matches 1829- First US patent on typewriter is granted to William Burt 1830- 26 steam cars running in London 1830-1840 1831- Horse drawn buses appear in NY 1832- Horse drawn trolleys in NY 1834- Two-wheeled, one-horse Hansom cabs introduced in London 1836- Cooke patents electric telegraph 1838- First traveling post office runs in England 1839- Steinheil builds the first electric clock 1840- Penny postage established in Great Britain 1840-1850 1841- First university degrees granted to women in US 1843- World's first nightclub opens in Paris (Le Bal des Anglais) 1844- First public bath houses open in Liverpool, England 1844- Keller invents wood-pulp paper 1844- S.B.F. Morse’s telegraph is used for the first time between Baltimore and Washington 1845- Texas and Florida become states 1846- Iowa becomes a state 1846- Sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe, improved in 1851 by I.M. Singer 1847- US forces capture Mexico City 1847- Evaporative milk is made for the first time 1848-First women’s rights convention meets in Seneca Falls, NY 1848-First safety matches 1850 California becomes a state 1850-1860 1850- R.W. Bunson produces first gas burner 1851- Isaac Singer devises the continuous stitch sewing machine 1851- Maine and Illinois begin to enforce prohibition against liquor 1852- Franklin Pierce elected 14th president of the US. Inaugurated in 1853 1852- Wells Fargo & Co founded 1855- London sewers modernize after an outbreak of cholera 1856- Pure cocaine extracted from cocoa beans 1858- Felice Orsini’s attempt to assassinate Napoleon III 1858- Ottowa becomes the capital of Canada 1859- Steamroller invented 1860-1870 1861- Abe Lincoln inaugurated at 16th president of US 1861, April 12- Outbreak of civil war 1861- T.S. Mort builds first machine-chilled storage until 1861-US introduces first passport system 1863- Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation 1863- Ebenezer Butterick develops first paper dress patterns 1863- Roller skating introduced to America 1864- "In God We Trust" first appears on US coins 1865- Abraham Lincoln assassinated on April 14. Succeeded by Andrew Johnson 1865- US Civil War ends 1865- Thirteenth Amendment of US Constitution abolishes slavery 1865- Joseph Lister initiates antiseptic surgery by using carbolic acid on a compound wound 1865- First carpet sweeper comes to use 1865- Ku Klux Klan founded 1866- Alfred Nobel invents dynamite 1867- Gold discovered in Wyoming 1868- Ulysses S. Grant elected president of US 1870-1880 1871- PT Barnum opens his circus 1872- Brooklyn Bridge opened 1873- American Football Clubs adopt uniform rules 1873- Color photographs first developed 1875- London’s main sewerage system is complete 1875- London Medical School for Women founded 1875- First roller skating rink opens in London 1876- Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone 1876- US National Baseball League founded 1877- Edison invents phonograph 1878- First use of iodoform as an antiseptic 1878- Electric street light is introduced in London 1879- London’s first telephone exchange established 1880-1890 1880- The game of Bingo is established from the Italian lotto game of tumbula 1880- Canned fruits and meat first appear in stores 1880- New York streets are first lit by electricity 1882- American Baseball Association founded 1883- Northern Pacific Railroad line completed 1883- Brooklyn Bridge is opened to traffic 1883- The first sky scraper is built in Chicago (10 stories) 1883- W.F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) organized his "Wild West Show" 1885- Sir Francis Galton proves the individuality of fingerprints 1885- Karl Benz builds single-cylinder engine for motor car 1887- Edison and Swan combine to produce Ediswan electrical lamps 1888- George Eastman perfect "Kodak" box camera 1888- Football League founded 1890-1900 1890-Global Influenza epidemics 1890- Rubber gloves are used for the first time in surgery 1891- Beginnings of wireless telegraphy 1891- W.L. Hudson invents clothing zipper (not practical use until 1919) 1892- First cans of pineapple 1893- Karl Benz constructs his four-wheel car 1893- Henry Ford builds his first car 1895- X-Rays discovered 1895- Marconi invents radio telegraphy 1895- Motion picture camera invented 1896- Helium discovered 1896- Hydroelectric plant opens at Niagara Falls 1898- First photographs taken using artificial light 1900- First browning revolvers manufactured 1900- R.A. Fessenden transmits human speech via radio waves 1900-1910 1901- "Century of Electricity" begins 1901- In England, Boxing is recognized as a legal sport 1901- First motor driven bicycles 1903- Alaskan frontier is settled 1903- Orville an d Wilbur Wright successfully fly a powered plane 1903- Richard Steiff designs first teddy bears (named after President Theodore Roosevelt) 1904- First ultraviolet lamps 1904- Rolls Royce Co founded 1905- First motor buses in London 1906- The term "allergy" is introduced to medicine 1906- Night shift work for women is internationally forbidden 1907- First daily comic strip "Mr. Mutt"—San Francisco Chronicle 1907- Boy Scout movement founded 1908- Fountain Pens become popular 1909- First perms are given by London hairdressers 1910- Haley's comet observed 1910-1920 1911- Kettering develops first practical electric self-starter for automobiles 1912- F.W. Woolworth Company founded 1912- Cosmic radiation discovered 1913- Coal dust converted into oil 1914- Goddard begins rocketry experiments 1914- Successful heart surgery performed on a dog 1915- First fighter airplane constructed 1915- Ford develops a farm tractor 1916- Blood for transfusion is refrigerated 1916- Prohibition gains ground as 24 states vote against alcoholic beverages 1916- Sanger joins in opening the first birth control clinic 1917-
Four women arrested for picketing the White House in 1917- Wilson rejects suffrage bill 1918- True dimensions of the Milky Way discovered 1918- US population: 103.5 million 1919- Austrian abolished the death penalty 1920- Cushing develops new techniques in brain surgery 1920- Rorshach devises the "inkblot" test 1920-more to come 1922- Insulin is first administered to diabetic patients 1922- Carrel discovers white corpuscles 1923- First birth control clinic opens in NY 1923- Col. Jacob Schick patents electric razor 1924- 2.5 million radios in use in US * * * Historical
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