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Edward Francis Baker

Male 1825 - 1859  (33 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1825 
  • 1825: John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
  • 1825: William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
1827 
  • 1827: Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
  • 1827: John Walker invents the modern matches.
1829 
  • 1829: Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837.
  • 1829: American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
  • 1829: Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing.
  • 1829: William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
1830 
  • 1830: William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
  • 1830: Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
1831 
  • 1831: American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
1832 
  • 1832: Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836.
  • 1832: Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
1834 
  • 1834: Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
  • 1834: Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
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.
1836 
  • 1836: Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
10 1837 
  • 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.
  • 1837: Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
11 1838 
  • 1838: Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
12 1839 
  • 1839: Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
  • 1839: American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
  • 1839: Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
  • 1839: American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
  • 1839: Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
13 1840 
  • 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
14 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.
15 1842 
  • 1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
16 1843 
  • 1843: Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
17 1844 
  • 1844: Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
18 1845 
  • 1845: James Polk president of the USA 1845-1849.
  • 1845: Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
  • 1845: American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
19 1846 
  • 1846: Mexican-American War 1846-1848.
  • 1846: Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
20 1847 
  • 1847: Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
21 1849 
  • 1849: Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office.
  • 1849: Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
22 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.
23 1851 
  • 1851: Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
24 1853 
  • 1853: Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
25 1854 
  • 1854: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
26 1855 
  • 1855: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
27 1856 
  • 1856: Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
28 1857 
  • 1857: George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
  • 1857: James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
29 1858 
  • 1858: Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
  • 1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.