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| 1 | 1475 | - 1475: Muzzle-loaded rifles invented in Italy and Germany.
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| 2 | 1483 | - 1483: Edward V. Ruler of England 4/9/1483-6/25/1483. House of York: Eldest son of Edward IV, murdered in Tower of London.
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| 3 | 1485 | - 1485: Leonardo DaVinci designed the first parachute.
- 1485: Henry VII Gaunt. Ruler of England 1485-1508. House of Tudor: Son of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, whose father had married the widow of Henry V; descended from Edward III through his mother, Mary Beaufort, via John of Gaunt. By marriage with daughter of Edward IV he united Lancaster and York.
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| 4 | 1486 | - 1486: In Venice, the first known copyright granted.
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| 5 | 1487 | - 1487: Bell chimes invented.
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| 6 | 1492 | - 1492: Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines.
- 1492: Martin Behaim invented the first map globe.
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| 7 | 1494 | - 1494: Whiskey invented in Scotland.
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| 8 | 1500 | - 1500: The first flush toilets appeared.
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| 9 | 1509 | - 1509: Henry VIII. Ruler of England 1509-1547. House of Tudor: Only surviving son of Henry VII by Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV.
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| 10 | 1510 | - 1510: Leonardo da Vinci designs a horizontal water wheel.
- 1510: Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein.
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| 11 | 1513 | - 1513: Urs Graf invents etching.
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| 12 | 1547 | - 1547: Edward VI. Ruler of England 1547-1553. House of Tudor: Son of Henry VIII, by Jane Seymour, his 3rd queen. Ruled under regents. Was forced to name Lady Jane Grey his successor. Council of State proclaimed her queen July 10, 1553. Mary Tudor won Council, was proclaimed queen July 19, 1553. Mary had Lady Jane Grey beheaded for treason, Feb 1554.
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| 13 | 1553 | - 1553: Mary I. Ruler of England 1553-1558. House of Tudor: Daughter of Henry VIII, by Catherine of Aragon.
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| 14 | 1558 | - 1558: Elizabeth I. Ruler of England 1558-1603. House of Tudor: Daughter of Henry VIII, by Anne Boleyn.
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| 15 | 1568 | - 1568: Bottled beer invented in London.
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| 16 | 1569 | - 1569: Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection.
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| 17 | 1589 | - 1589: Englishmen, William Lee invents the knitting machine.
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| 18 | 1590 | - 1590: Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope.
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| 19 | 1593 | - 1593: Galileo invents a water thermometer.
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| 20 | 1603 | - 1603: James I. Ruler of England 1603-1625. House of Stuart: Son of Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter of James IV and Margaret. First to call himself King of Great Britain. This became official with the Act of Union, 1707.
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| 21 | 1608 | - 1608: Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
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| 22 | 1620 | - 1620: The earliest human-powered submarine invented.
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| 23 | 1624 | - 1624: William Oughtred invents a slide ruler.
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| 24 | 1625 | - 1625: Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.
- 1625: Charles I. Ruler of England 1625-1649. House of Stuart: Only surviving son of James I; beheaded Jan 30, 1649.
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| 25 | 1629 | - 1629: Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
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| 26 | 1636 | - 1636: W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
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| 27 | 1637 | - 1637: Pequot War 1637-1638
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| 28 | 1642 | - 1642: Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
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| 29 | 1643 | - 1643: Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
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| 30 | 1649 | - 1649: Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England 1649-1658. Commonwealth & Protectorate.
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| 31 | 1650 | - 1650: Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
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| 32 | 1656 | - 1656: Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
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| 33 | 1658 | - 1658: Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England 1658-1659. Commonwealth & Proctorate: 3rd son of Oliver. Resigned May 25, 1659.
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| 34 | 1660 | - 1660: Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region.
- 1660: Charles II. Ruler of England 1660-1685. House of Stuart (restored): Eldest son of Charles I, died without issue. De Jure King from Jan 30, 1649.
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| 35 | 1663 | - 1663: James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
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| 36 | 1668 | - 1668: Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
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| 37 | 1670 | - 1670: Dom Pérignon invents Champagne.
- 1670: The first reference to a candy cane is made.
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| 38 | 1671 | - 1671: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
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| 39 | 1675 | - 1675: King Philip's War: New England colonies vs Wampanoag, Narragansett and Nipmuck Indians 1675-1676.
- 1675: Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch.
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| 40 | 1676 | - 1676: Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
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| 41 | 1679 | - 1679: Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
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| 42 | 1685 | - 1685: James II. Ruler of England 1685-1689. House of Stuart (restored): 2nd son of Charles I. Deposed 1688, interregnum Dec 11, 1688, to Feb 13, 1689.
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| 43 | 1689 | - 1689: King William's War: English Colonies vs France 1689-1697.
- 1689: William III and Mary II. Rulers of England 1689-1702. House of Stuart (restored): Son of William, Prince of Orange, by Mary, daughter of Charles I. Mary eldest daughter of James II. She died 1694.
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| 44 | 1698 | - 1698: Englishman, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
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| 45 | 1701 | - 1701: Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
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| 46 | 1702 | - 1702: Queen Anne's War: English Colonies vs France 1702-1713.
- 1702: Anne. Ruler of England 1702-1714. House of Stuart (restored): 2nd daughter of James II. Died with no living heirs.
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| 47 | 1709 | - 1709: Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
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| 48 | 1711 | - 1711: Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
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| 49 | 1712 | - 1712: Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.
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| 50 | 1714 | - 1714: George I. Ruler of England 1714-1727. House of Hanover: Son of Elector of Hanover, by Sohia, grand-daughter of James I. Proclaimed King under Act of Settlement.
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| 51 | 1717 | - 1717: Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
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| 52 | 1722 | - 1722: French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.
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| 53 | 1723 | - 1723: Drummer's War 1723-1726.
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| 54 | 1724 | - 1724: Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
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| 55 | 1727 | - 1727: George II. Ruler of England 1727-1760. House of Hanover: Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg.
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| 56 | 1733 | - 1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
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| 57 | 1744 | - 1744: King George's War: French Colonies vs Great Britain 1744-1748.
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| 58 | 1745 | - 1745: E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
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| 59 | 1752 | - 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
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| 60 | 1755 | - 1755: Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
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| 61 | 1756 | - 1756: French and Indian War: also known as the Seven Years War. French Colonies vs Great Britain 1756-1763.
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| 62 | 1757 | - 1757: John Campbell invents the sextant.
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| 63 | 1758 | - 1758: Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
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| 64 | 1759 | - 1759: Cherokee War: English Colonists vs Cherokee Indians 1759-1761.
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| 65 | 1760 | - 1760: George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
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| 66 | 1761 | - 1761: Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
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| 67 | 1764 | - 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
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| 68 | 1767 | - 1767: Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
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| 69 | 1768 | - 1768: Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
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| 70 | 1769 | - 1769: James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
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| 71 | 1774 | - 1774: Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
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| 72 | 1775 | - 1775: American Revolution: English Colonists vs Great Britain 1775-1783.
- 1775: Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
- 1775: Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
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| 73 | 1776 | - 1776: USA: signing of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1776: David Bushnell invents a submarine.
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| 74 | 1779 | - 1779: Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
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| 75 | 1780 | - 1780: Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
- 1780: Gervinus invents the circular saw.
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| 76 | 1783 | - 1783: Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
- 1783: Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
- 1783: Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
- 1783: Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
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| 77 | 1784 | - 1784: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- 1784: Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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| 78 | 1785 | - 1785: Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
- 1785: Blanchard invents a working parachute.
- 1785: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
- 1785: Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
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| 79 | 1786 | - 1786: John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 80 | 1789 | - 1789: George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- 1789: The guillotine is invented.
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| 81 | 1790 | - 1790: The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
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| 82 | 1791 | - 1791: John Barber invents the gas turbine.
- 1791: Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
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| 83 | 1792 | - 1792: William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
- 1792: The first ambulance.
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| 84 | 1794 | - 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- 1794: Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 85 | 1795 | - 1795: Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 86 | 1796 | - 1796: Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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| 87 | 1797 | - 1797: John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
- 1797: A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
- 1797: Wittemore patents a carding machine.
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| 88 | 1798 | - 1798: Franco-American Naval War: United States vs France 1798-1800.
- 1798: Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
- 1798: The first soft drink invented.
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| 89 | 1799 | - 1799: Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- 1799: Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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| 90 | 1800 | - 1800: Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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| 91 | 1801 | - 1801: USA: Tripolitan War 1801-1805. Barbary Wars: also fought in 1815. United States vs Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 1801-1805.
- 1801: Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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| 92 | 1804 | - 1804: Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
- 1804: Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
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| 93 | 1809 | - 1809: James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
- 1809: Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
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| 94 | 1810 | - 1810: German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
- 1810: Peter Durand invents the tin can.
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| 95 | 1812 | - 1812: War of 1812: United States vs Great Britain 1812-1815.
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| 96 | 1813 | - 1813: Creek War: United States vs Creek Indians 1813-1814.
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| 97 | 1814 | - 1814: George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
- 1814: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
- 1814: German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
- 1814: The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
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| 98 | 1815 | - 1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
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| 99 | 1817 | - 1817: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
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| 100 | 1819 | - 1819: René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
- 1819: Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
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| 101 | 1820 | - 1820: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
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| 102 | 1823 | - 1823: Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
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| 103 | 1824 | - 1824: Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
- 1824: Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
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| 104 | 1825 | - 1825: John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
- 1825: William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
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| 105 | 1827 | - 1827: Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
- 1827: John Walker invents the modern matches.
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| 106 | 1829 | - 1829: Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837.
- 1829: William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
- 1829: Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing.
- 1829: American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
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| 107 | 1830 | - 1830: Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
- 1830: William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
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| 108 | 1831 | - 1831: American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
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| 109 | 1832 | - 1832: Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836.
- 1832: Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
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| 110 | 1834 | - 1834: Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
- 1834: Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
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| 111 | 1835 | - 1835: Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
- 1835: Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography.
- 1835: Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
- 1835: Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
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| 112 | 1836 | - 1836: Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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| 113 | 1837 | - 1837: Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
- 1837: Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
- 1837: English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
- 1837: Victoria. Ruler of England 1837-1901. House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort.
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| 114 | 1838 | - 1838: Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
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| 115 | 1839 | - 1839: Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
- 1839: Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
- 1839: American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
- 1839: Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
- 1839: American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
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| 116 | 1840 | - 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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| 117 | 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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| 118 | 1842 | - 1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
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| 119 | 1843 | - 1843: Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
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| 120 | 1844 | - 1844: Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
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| 121 | 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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| 122 | 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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| 123 | 1847 | - 1847: Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
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| 124 | 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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| 125 | 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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| 126 | 1851 | - 1851: Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
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| 127 | 1853 | - 1853: Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
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| 128 | 1854 | - 1854: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
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| 129 | 1855 | - 1855: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
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| 130 | 1856 | - 1856: Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
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| 131 | 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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| 132 | 1858 | - 1858: Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
- 1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
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| 133 | 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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| 134 | 1862 | - 1862: Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
- 1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
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| 135 | 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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| 136 | 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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| 137 | 1867 | - 1867: Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
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| 138 | 1868 | - 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
- 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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| 139 | 1869 | - 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 140 | 1872 | - 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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| 141 | 1873 | - 1873: Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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| 142 | 1874 | - 1874: American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
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| 143 | 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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| 144 | 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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| 145 | 1878 | - 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
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| 146 | 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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| 147 | 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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| 148 | 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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| 149 | 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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| 150 | 1886 | - 1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
- 1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
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| 151 | 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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| 152 | 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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| 153 | 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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| 154 | 1891 | - 1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
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| 155 | 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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| 156 | 1893 | - 1893: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
- 1893: American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
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| 157 | 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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| 158 | 1896 | - 1896: American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
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| 159 | 1897 | - 1897: William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
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| 160 | 1898 | - 1898: Spanish-American War: United States vs Spain 1898.
- 1898: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
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| 161 | 1899 | - 1899: J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
- 1899: I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
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| 162 | 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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| 163 | 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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| 164 | 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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| 165 | 1903 | - 1903: Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
- 1903: Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
- 1903: The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
- 1903: Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
- 1903: William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
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| 166 | 1904 | - 1904: Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
- 1904: Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
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| 167 | 1905 | - 1905: Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
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| 168 | 1906 | - 1906: William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
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| 169 | 1907 | - 1907: Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
- 1907: The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.
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| 170 | 1908 | - 1908: The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
- 1908: Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
- 1908: Model T automobile first sold.
- 1908: J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter.
- 1908: Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates.
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| 171 | 1909 | - 1909: William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
- 1909: Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
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| 172 | 1910 | - 1910: Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
- 1910: Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris.
- 1910: George V. Ruler of England 1910-1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck. Accession, Jan 20, abdication, Dec 10.
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| 173 | 1911 | - 1911: Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
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| 174 | 1912 | - 1912: Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
- 1912: The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
- 1912: Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912.
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| 175 | 1913 | - 1913: Woodrow Wilson president of the USA 1913-1921.
- 1913: The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
- 1913: The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now known as, ecstasy.
- 1913: Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
- 1913: Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper.
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| 176 | 1914 | - 1914: World War I begins. Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
- 1914: Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
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| 177 | 1915 | - 1915: Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
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| 178 | 1916 | - 1916: Radio tuners invented that received different stations.
- 1916: Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
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| 179 | 1918 | - 1918: World War I ends.
- 1918: Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
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| 180 | 1919 | - 1919: The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
- 1919: Short-wave radio invented.
- 1919: The arc welder invented.
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| 181 | 1920 | - 1920: The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
- 1920: The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
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| 182 | 1921 | - 1921: Warren Harding president of the USA 1921. Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921.
- 1921: Calvin Coolidge president of the USA 1921-1929. Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies.
- 1921: Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
- 1921: John Larson, a University of California medical student, invented the modern lie detector (polygraph), used by police since 1924.
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| 183 | 1922 | - 1922: Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
- 1922: The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
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| 184 | 1923 | - 1923: Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
- 1923: The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
- 1923: John Harwood invented the self-winding watch.
- 1923: Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
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| 185 | 1924 | - 1924: The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
- 1924: Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
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| 186 | 1925 | - 1925: The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
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| 187 | 1926 | - 1926: Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
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| 188 | 1927 | - 1927: JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
- 1927: Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
- 1927: Technicolor invented.
- 1927: Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
- 1927: Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
- 1927: Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
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| 189 | 1928 | - 1928: Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
- 1928: Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
- 1928: Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
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| 190 | 1929 | - 1929: Herbert Hoover president of the USA 1929-1933.
- 1929: American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
- 1929: Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
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| 191 | 1930 | - 1930: Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer Richard G. Drew.
- 1930: The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
- 1930: Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.
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| 192 | 1931 | - 1931: Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
- 1931: Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
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| 193 | 1932 | - 1932: Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
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| 194 | 1933 | - 1933: Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
- 1933: Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
- 1933: Stereo records invented.
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| 195 | 1934 | - 1934: Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
- 1934: Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
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| 196 | 1935 | - 1935: Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
- 1935: The first canned beer made.
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| 197 | 1936 | - 1936: Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
- 1936: Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
- 1936: Edward VIII. Ruler of England 1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Eldest son of George V.
- 1936: George VI. Ruler of England 1936-1952. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of George V, Duke of York; married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
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| 198 | 1937 | - 1937: Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
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| 199 | 1938 | - 1938: The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
- 1938: Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
- 1938: Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
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| 200 | 1939 | - 1939: World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.
- 1939: Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
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| 201 | 1940 | - 1940: Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
- 1940: Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
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| 202 | 1941 | - 1941: Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
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| 203 | 1942 | - 1942: John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
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| 204 | 1943 | - 1943: Richard James invents the slinky.
- 1943: James Wright invent silly putty.
- 1943: Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
- 1943: Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
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| 205 | 1944 | - 1944: The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
- 1944: Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
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| 206 | 1945 | - 1945: World War II ends.
- 1945: Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.
- 1945: The atomic bomb invented.
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| 207 | 1946 | - 1946: The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
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| 208 | 1947 | - 1947: British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed the theory of holography.
- 1947: Mobile phones first invented.
- 1947: Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor.
- 1947: Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal.
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| 209 | 1948 | - 1948: The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
- 1948: Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
- 1948: Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
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| 210 | 1949 | |
| 211 | 1950 | - 1950: Korean War: United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China 1950-1953.
- 1950: The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
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| 212 | 1951 | - 1951: Super glue invented.
- 1951: Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.
- 1951: Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
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| 213 | 1952 | - 1952: Mr. Potato Head patented.
- 1952: The first patent for bar code (US Patent #2,612,994) issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.
- 1952: The first diet soft drink sold called the "No-Cal Beverage" a gingerale sold by Kirsch.
- 1952: Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb.
- 1952: Elizabeth II. Ruler of England 1952-present. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Elder daughter of George VI, acceded Feb 6, 1956.
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| 214 | 1953 | - 1953: Dwight Eisenhower president of the USA 1953-1961.
- 1953: Radial tires invented.
- 1953: The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA.
- 1953: Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments.
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| 215 | 1954 | - 1954: Oral contraceptives invented.
- 1954: The first nonstick pan produced.
- 1954: The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
- 1954: Ray Kroc started McDonalds.
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| 216 | 1955 | - 1955: Optic fiber invented.
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| 217 | 1956 | - 1956: The first computer hard disk used.
- 1956: The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.
- 1956: Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter.
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| 218 | 1957 | - 1957: Fortran (computer language) invented.
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| 219 | 1958 | - 1958: The modem invented.
- 1958: Gordon Gould invents the laser.
- 1958: The Hula Hoop invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin.
- 1958: The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
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| 220 | 1959 | - 1959: The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
- 1959: Barbie Doll invented.
- 1959: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip.
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| 221 | 1960 | - 1960: USA Vietnam War Begins
- 1960: The halogen lamp invented.
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| 222 | 1961 | - 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: United States vs Cuba 1961.
- 1961: John F. Kennedy president of the USA 1961-1963.
- 1961: Valium invented.
- 1961: The nondairy creamer invented.
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| 223 | 1962 | - 1962: The audio cassette invented.
- 1962: The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie.
- 1962: Spacewar, the first computer video game invented.
- 1962: Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants.
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| 224 | 1963 | - 1963: John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas, 22 Nov 1963.
- 1963: Lyndon B. Johnson president of the USA 1963-1969. Lyndon B. Johnson, vice president under John F. Kennedy, sworn in as president aboard Air Force One upon death of Kennedy.
- 1963: The first videodisc invented.
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| 225 | 1964 | - 1964: Acrylic paint invented.
- 1964: Permanent-press fabric invented.
- 1964: BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz.
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| 226 | 1965 | - 1965: Astroturf invented.
- 1965: Soft contact lenses invented.
- 1965: NutraSweet invented.
- 1965: The compact disk invented by James Russell.
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| 227 | 1966 | - 1966: Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented.
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| 228 | 1967 | - 1967: The first handheld calculator invented.
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| 229 | 1968 | - 1968: The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
- 1968: The first computer with integrated circuits made.
- 1968: Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).
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| 230 | 1969 | - 1969: Richard Nixon president of the USA 1969-1974.
- 1969: The arpanet (first internet) invented.
- 1969: The artificial heart invented.
- 1969: The ATM invented.
- 1969: The bar-code scanner is invented.
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| 231 | 1970 | - 1970: The daisy-wheel printer invented.
- 1970: The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.
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| 232 | 1971 | - 1971: The dot-matrix printer invented.
- 1971: The food processor invented.
- 1971: The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason.
- 1971: The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.
- 1971: VCR or videocassette recorder invented.
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| 233 | 1972 | - 1972: The word processor invented.
- 1972: Pong (first video game) invented by Nolan Bushnell.
- 1972: Hacky Sack® invented by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall.
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| 234 | 1973 | - 1973: Gene splicing invented.
- 1973: The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
- 1973: Bic invents the disposable lighter.
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| 235 | 1974 | - 1974: Richard M. Nixon first president of USA to resign from office. His decision was announced 8 Aug 1974.
- 1974: Gerald Ford president of the USA 1974-1977.
- 1974: The post-it note invented by Arthur Fry.
- 1974: Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invents liposuction.
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| 236 | 1975 | - 1975: USA Vietnam War Ends
- 1975: The laser printer invented.
- 1975: The push-through tab on a drink can invented.
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| 237 | 1976 | - 1976: The ink-jet printer invented.
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| 238 | 1977 | - 1977: Jimmy Carter president of the USA 1977-1981.
- 1977: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) invented by Raymond V. Damadian.
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| 239 | 1978 | - 1978: The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.
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| 240 | 1979 | - 1979: Cellular phones invented.
- 1979: Cray supercomputer invented by Seymour Cray.
- 1979: Walkman invented.
- 1979: Scott Olson invents roller blades.
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| 241 | 1980 | - 1980: The hepatitis-B vaccine invented.
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| 242 | 1981 | - 1981: Ronald Reagan president of the USA 1981-1989.
- 1981: MS-DOS invented.
- 1981: The first IBM-PC invented.
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| 243 | 1982 | - 1982: Human growth hormone genetically engineered.
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| 244 | 1983 | - 1983: Grenada: United States Intervention 1983.
- 1983: Soft bifocal contact lens invented.
- 1983: First Cabbage Patch Kids sold.
- 1983: Programmer Jaron Lanier first coins the term "virtual reality."
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| 245 | 1984 | - 1984: The CD-ROM invented.
- 1984: The Apple Macintosh invented.
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| 246 | 1985 | - 1985: Windows program invented by Microsoft.
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| 247 | 1986 | - 1986: Fuji introduced the disposable camera.
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| 248 | 1987 | - 1987: The first 3-D video game invented.
- 1987: Disposable contact lenses invented.
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| 249 | 1988 | - 1988: Digital cellular phones invented.
- 1988: The RU-486 (abortion pill) invented.
- 1988: Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler.
- 1988: Prozac® invented at the Eli Lilly Company by inventor Ray Fuller.
- 1988: The first patent for a genetically engineered animal is issued to Harvard University researchers Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart.
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| 250 | 1989 | - 1989: US Invasion of Panama: United States vs Panama 1989-1990.
- 1989: George H.W. Bush president of the USA 1989-1993.
- 1989: High-definition television invented.
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| 251 | 1990 | - 1990: Persian Gulf War: United States and Coalition Forces vs Iraq 1990-1991.
- 1990: The World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.
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| 252 | 1991 | - 1991: The digital answering machine invented.
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| 253 | 1993 | - 1993: William Jefferson Clinton president of the USA 1993-2001.
- 1993: The pentium processor invented.
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| 254 | 1994 | - 1994: HIV protease inhibitor invented.
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| 255 | 1995 | - 1995: Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina: United States as part of NATO acted peacekeepers in former Yugoslavia 1995-1996.
- 1995: The Java computer language invented.
- 1995: DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented.
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1475 - 1528 (~ 53 years)