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| 1 | 1589 | - 1589: Englishmen, William Lee invents the knitting machine.
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| 2 | 1590 | - 1590: Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope.
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| 3 | 1593 | - 1593: Galileo invents a water thermometer.
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| 4 | 1603 | - 1603: James I. Ruler of England 1603-1625. House of Stuart: Son of Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter of James IV and Margaret. First to call himself King of Great Britain. This became official with the Act of Union, 1707.
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| 5 | 1608 | - 1608: Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
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| 6 | 1620 | - 1620: The earliest human-powered submarine invented.
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| 7 | 1624 | - 1624: William Oughtred invents a slide ruler.
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| 8 | 1625 | - 1625: Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.
- 1625: Charles I. Ruler of England 1625-1649. House of Stuart: Only surviving son of James I; beheaded Jan 30, 1649.
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| 9 | 1629 | - 1629: Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
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| 10 | 1636 | - 1636: W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
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| 11 | 1637 | - 1637: Pequot War 1637-1638
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| 12 | 1642 | - 1642: Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
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| 13 | 1643 | - 1643: Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
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| 14 | 1649 | - 1649: Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England 1649-1658. Commonwealth & Protectorate.
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| 15 | 1650 | - 1650: Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
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| 16 | 1656 | - 1656: Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
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| 17 | 1658 | - 1658: Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England 1658-1659. Commonwealth & Proctorate: 3rd son of Oliver. Resigned May 25, 1659.
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| 18 | 1660 | - 1660: Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region.
- 1660: Charles II. Ruler of England 1660-1685. House of Stuart (restored): Eldest son of Charles I, died without issue. De Jure King from Jan 30, 1649.
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| 19 | 1663 | - 1663: James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
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| 20 | 1668 | - 1668: Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
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| 21 | 1670 | - 1670: Dom Pérignon invents Champagne.
- 1670: The first reference to a candy cane is made.
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| 22 | 1671 | - 1671: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
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| 23 | 1675 | - 1675: King Philip's War: New England colonies vs Wampanoag, Narragansett and Nipmuck Indians 1675-1676.
- 1675: Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch.
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| 24 | 1676 | - 1676: Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
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| 25 | 1679 | - 1679: Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
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| 26 | 1685 | - 1685: James II. Ruler of England 1685-1689. House of Stuart (restored): 2nd son of Charles I. Deposed 1688, interregnum Dec 11, 1688, to Feb 13, 1689.
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| 27 | 1689 | - 1689: King William's War: English Colonies vs France 1689-1697.
- 1689: William III and Mary II. Rulers of England 1689-1702. House of Stuart (restored): Son of William, Prince of Orange, by Mary, daughter of Charles I. Mary eldest daughter of James II. She died 1694.
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| 28 | 1698 | - 1698: Englishman, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
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| 29 | 1701 | - 1701: Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
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| 30 | 1702 | - 1702: Queen Anne's War: English Colonies vs France 1702-1713.
- 1702: Anne. Ruler of England 1702-1714. House of Stuart (restored): 2nd daughter of James II. Died with no living heirs.
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| 31 | 1709 | - 1709: Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
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| 32 | 1711 | - 1711: Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
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| 33 | 1712 | - 1712: Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.
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| 34 | 1714 | - 1714: George I. Ruler of England 1714-1727. House of Hanover: Son of Elector of Hanover, by Sohia, grand-daughter of James I. Proclaimed King under Act of Settlement.
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| 35 | 1717 | - 1717: Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
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| 36 | 1722 | - 1722: French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.
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| 37 | 1723 | - 1723: Drummer's War 1723-1726.
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| 38 | 1724 | - 1724: Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
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| 39 | 1727 | - 1727: George II. Ruler of England 1727-1760. House of Hanover: Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg.
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| 40 | 1733 | - 1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
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| 41 | 1744 | - 1744: King George's War: French Colonies vs Great Britain 1744-1748.
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| 42 | 1745 | - 1745: E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
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| 43 | 1752 | - 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
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| 44 | 1755 | - 1755: Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
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| 45 | 1756 | - 1756: French and Indian War: also known as the Seven Years War. French Colonies vs Great Britain 1756-1763.
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| 46 | 1757 | - 1757: John Campbell invents the sextant.
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| 47 | 1758 | - 1758: Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
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| 48 | 1759 | - 1759: Cherokee War: English Colonists vs Cherokee Indians 1759-1761.
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| 49 | 1760 | - 1760: George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
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| 50 | 1761 | - 1761: Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
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| 51 | 1764 | - 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
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| 52 | 1767 | - 1767: Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
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| 53 | 1768 | - 1768: Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
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| 54 | 1769 | - 1769: James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
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| 55 | 1774 | - 1774: Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
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| 56 | 1775 | - 1775: American Revolution: English Colonists vs Great Britain 1775-1783.
- 1775: Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
- 1775: Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
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| 57 | 1776 | - 1776: USA: signing of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1776: David Bushnell invents a submarine.
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| 58 | 1779 | - 1779: Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
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| 59 | 1780 | - 1780: Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
- 1780: Gervinus invents the circular saw.
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| 60 | 1783 | - 1783: Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
- 1783: Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
- 1783: Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
- 1783: Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
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| 61 | 1784 | - 1784: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- 1784: Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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| 62 | 1785 | - 1785: Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
- 1785: Blanchard invents a working parachute.
- 1785: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
- 1785: Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
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| 63 | 1786 | - 1786: John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 64 | 1789 | - 1789: George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- 1789: The guillotine is invented.
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| 65 | 1790 | - 1790: The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
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| 66 | 1791 | - 1791: John Barber invents the gas turbine.
- 1791: Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
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| 67 | 1792 | - 1792: William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
- 1792: The first ambulance.
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| 68 | 1794 | - 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- 1794: Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 69 | 1795 | - 1795: Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 70 | 1796 | - 1796: Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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| 71 | 1797 | - 1797: John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
- 1797: A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
- 1797: Wittemore patents a carding machine.
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| 72 | 1798 | - 1798: Franco-American Naval War: United States vs France 1798-1800.
- 1798: Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
- 1798: The first soft drink invented.
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| 73 | 1799 | - 1799: Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- 1799: Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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| 74 | 1800 | - 1800: Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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| 75 | 1801 | - 1801: USA: Tripolitan War 1801-1805. Barbary Wars: also fought in 1815. United States vs Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 1801-1805.
- 1801: Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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| 76 | 1804 | - 1804: Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
- 1804: Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
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| 77 | 1809 | - 1809: James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
- 1809: Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
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| 78 | 1810 | - 1810: German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
- 1810: Peter Durand invents the tin can.
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| 79 | 1812 | - 1812: War of 1812: United States vs Great Britain 1812-1815.
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| 80 | 1813 | - 1813: Creek War: United States vs Creek Indians 1813-1814.
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| 81 | 1814 | - 1814: George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
- 1814: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
- 1814: German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
- 1814: The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
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| 82 | 1815 | - 1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
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| 83 | 1817 | - 1817: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
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| 84 | 1819 | - 1819: René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
- 1819: Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
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| 85 | 1820 | - 1820: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
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| 86 | 1823 | - 1823: Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
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| 87 | 1824 | - 1824: Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
- 1824: Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
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| 88 | 1825 | - 1825: John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
- 1825: William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
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| 89 | 1827 | - 1827: Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
- 1827: John Walker invents the modern matches.
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| 90 | 1829 | - 1829: Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837.
- 1829: William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
- 1829: Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing.
- 1829: American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
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| 91 | 1830 | - 1830: Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
- 1830: William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
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| 92 | 1831 | - 1831: American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
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| 93 | 1832 | - 1832: Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836.
- 1832: Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
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| 94 | 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.
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| 95 | 1835 | - 1835: Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
- 1835: Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography.
- 1835: Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
- 1835: Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
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| 96 | 1836 | - 1836: Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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| 97 | 1837 | - 1837: Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
- 1837: Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
- 1837: English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
- 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.
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| 98 | 1838 | - 1838: Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
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| 99 | 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.
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| 100 | 1840 | - 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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| 101 | 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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| 102 | 1842 | - 1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
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| 103 | 1843 | - 1843: Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
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| 104 | 1844 | - 1844: Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
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| 105 | 1845 | - 1845: James Polk president of the USA 1845-1849.
- 1845: American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
- 1845: Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
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| 106 | 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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| 107 | 1847 | - 1847: Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
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| 108 | 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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| 109 | 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.
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| 110 | 1851 | - 1851: Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
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| 111 | 1853 | - 1853: Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
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| 112 | 1854 | - 1854: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
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| 113 | 1855 | - 1855: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
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| 114 | 1856 | - 1856: Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
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1572 - 1621 (49 years)