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James DeLancey Harris

Male 1799 - 1832  (33 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1799 
  • 1799: Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
  • 1799: Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
1800 
  • 1800: Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
1801 
  • 1801: Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
  • 1801: USA: Tripolitan War 1801-1805. Barbary Wars: also fought in 1815. United States vs Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 1801-1805.
1804 
  • 1804: Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
  • 1804: Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
1809 
  • 1809: Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
  • 1809: James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
1810 
  • 1810: Peter Durand invents the tin can.
  • 1810: German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
1812 
  • 1812: War of 1812: United States vs Great Britain 1812-1815.
1813 
  • 1813: Creek War: United States vs Creek Indians 1813-1814.
1814 
  • 1814: George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
  • 1814: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
  • 1814: The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
  • 1814: German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
10 1815 
  • 1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
11 1817 
  • 1817: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
12 1819 
  • 1819: René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
  • 1819: Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
13 1820 
  • 1820: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
14 1823 
  • 1823: Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
15 1824 
  • 1824: Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
  • 1824: Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
16 1825 
  • 1825: John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
  • 1825: William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
17 1827 
  • 1827: Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
  • 1827: John Walker invents the modern matches.
18 1829 
  • 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.
  • 1829: Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837.
19 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.
20 1831 
  • 1831: American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
21 1832 
  • 1832: Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836.
  • 1832: Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.