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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 1840 | - 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 1842 | - 1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
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1839 - 1842 (2 years)