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Charles Perkins

Male 1817 - 1840  (22 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1817 
  • 1817: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
1819 
  • 1819: Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
  • 1819: René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
1820 
  • 1820: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
1823 
  • 1823: Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
1824 
  • 1824: Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
  • 1824: Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
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.
10 1831 
  • 1831: American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
11 1832 
  • 1832: Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
  • 1832: Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836.
12 1834 
  • 1834: Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
  • 1834: Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
13 1835 
  • 1835: Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography.
  • 1835: Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
  • 1835: Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
  • 1835: Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
14 1836 
  • 1836: Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
15 1837 
  • 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.
  • 1837: English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
  • 1837: Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
16 1838 
  • 1838: Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
17 1839 
  • 1839: Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
  • 1839: Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
  • 1839: American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
  • 1839: Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
  • 1839: American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
18 1840 
  • 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.