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| 1 | 1840 | - 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 1842 | - 1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
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| 4 | 1843 | - 1843: Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
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| 5 | 1844 | - 1844: Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
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| 6 | 1845 | - 1845: Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
- 1845: James Polk president of the USA 1845-1849.
- 1845: American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1847 | - 1847: Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
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| 9 | 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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| 10 | 1850 | - 1850: Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent.
- 1850: Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death.
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| 11 | 1851 | - 1851: Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
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| 12 | 1853 | - 1853: Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
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| 13 | 1854 | - 1854: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
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| 14 | 1855 | - 1855: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
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| 15 | 1856 | - 1856: Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
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| 16 | 1857 | - 1857: George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
- 1857: James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
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| 17 | 1858 | - 1858: Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
- 1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
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| 18 | 1861 | - 1861: Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
- 1861: Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
- 1861: Abraham Lincoln president of the USA 1861-1865.
- 1861: USA Civil War begins.
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| 19 | 1862 | - 1862: Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
- 1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
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| 20 | 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.
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| 21 | 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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| 22 | 1867 | - 1867: Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
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| 23 | 1868 | - 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
- 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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| 24 | 1869 | - 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 25 | 1872 | - 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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1840 - 1872 (32 years)