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John T Pettichord

Male 1853 - 1885  (32 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1853 
  • 1853: Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
1854 
  • 1854: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
1855 
  • 1855: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
1856 
  • 1856: Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
1857 
  • 1857: James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
  • 1857: George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
1858 
  • 1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
  • 1858: Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
1861 
  • 1861: Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
  • 1861: Abraham Lincoln president of the USA 1861-1865.
  • 1861: USA Civil War begins.
  • 1861: Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
1862 
  • 1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
  • 1862: Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
1865 
  • 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.
  • 1865: USA Civil War ends.
10 1866 
  • 1866: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
  • 1866: Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
  • 1866: J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
11 1867 
  • 1867: Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
12 1868 
  • 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
  • 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
  • 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
13 1869 
  • 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
14 1872 
  • 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
  • 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
15 1873 
  • 1873: Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
16 1874 
  • 1874: American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
17 1876 
  • 1876: Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
  • 1876: Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
18 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.
19 1878 
  • 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
20 1880 
  • 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
21 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.
  • 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.
22 1884 
  • 1884: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
  • 1884: Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
  • 1884: Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
  • 1884: James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
23 1885 
  • 1885: Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
  • 1885: Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
  • 1885: Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
  • 1885: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.