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Lucy Huntington Perkins

Female 1845 - 1859  (13 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
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.
1846 
  • 1846: Mexican-American War 1846-1848.
  • 1846: Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
1847 
  • 1847: Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
1849 
  • 1849: Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office.
  • 1849: Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
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.
10 1856 
  • 1856: Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
11 1857 
  • 1857: James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
  • 1857: George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
12 1858 
  • 1858: Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
  • 1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.