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Helen J “Nellie” Baker

Female 1857 - 1901  (44 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1857 
  • 1857: George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
  • 1857: James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
1858 
  • 1858: Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
  • 1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
1861 
  • 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.
  • 1861: USA Civil War begins.
1862 
  • 1862: Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
  • 1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
1865 
  • 1865: USA Civil War ends.
  • 1865: Andrew Johnson president of the USA 1865-1869. Andrew Johnson, vice president under Abraham Lincoln, sworn in as president upon Lincoln's death.
  • 1865: Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 Apr 1865 and dies the next day.
1866 
  • 1866: Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
  • 1866: J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
  • 1866: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
1867 
  • 1867: Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
1868 
  • 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
  • 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
  • 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
1869 
  • 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
10 1872 
  • 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
  • 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
11 1873 
  • 1873: Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
12 1874 
  • 1874: American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
13 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.
14 1877 
  • 1877: Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
  • 1877: Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
  • 1877: Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
15 1878 
  • 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
16 1880 
  • 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
17 1881 
  • 1881: Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
  • 1881: Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
  • 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: James Garfield president of the USA 1881. James Garfield wounded by assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies 19 Sep 1881.
  • 1881: David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
18 1884 
  • 1884: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
  • 1884: Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
  • 1884: Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
  • 1884: James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
19 1885 
  • 1885: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
  • 1885: Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
  • 1885: Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
  • 1885: Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
20 1886 
  • 1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • 1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
21 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.
22 1888 
  • 1888: Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
  • 1888: Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
  • 1888: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
23 1889 
  • 1889: Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
  • 1889: Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
  • 1889: Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
24 1891 
  • 1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
25 1892 
  • 1892: Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
  • 1892: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
26 1893 
  • 1893: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
  • 1893: American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
27 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.
28 1896 
  • 1896: American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
29 1897 
  • 1897: William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
30 1898 
  • 1898: Spanish-American War: United States vs Spain 1898.
  • 1898: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
31 1899 
  • 1899: J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
  • 1899: I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
32 1900 
  • 1900: The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
  • 1900: Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
33 1901 
  • 1901: Edward VII. Ruler of England 1901-1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.
  • 1901: Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.
  • 1901: The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
  • 1901: King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
  • 1901: Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley.