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Leo William Fitzmaurice

Male 1879 - 1897  (~ 17 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1880 
  • 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
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: 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.
  • 1881: Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
  • 1881: Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
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.
1885 
  • 1885: Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
  • 1885: Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
  • 1885: Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
  • 1885: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
1886 
  • 1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • 1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
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.
1888 
  • 1888: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
  • 1888: Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
  • 1888: Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
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.
1891 
  • 1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
10 1892 
  • 1892: Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
  • 1892: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
11 1893 
  • 1893: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
  • 1893: American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
12 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.
13 1896 
  • 1896: American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
14 1897 
  • 1897: William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.