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Caroline Perkins

Female 1850 - 1857  (7 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
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.
1851 
  • 1851: Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
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.