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Alexander Woods

Male 1800 - 1826  (26 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1800 
  • 1800: Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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.
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.
1809 
  • 1809: James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
  • 1809: Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
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: German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
  • 1814: The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
1815 
  • 1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
10 1817 
  • 1817: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
11 1819 
  • 1819: René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
  • 1819: Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
12 1820 
  • 1820: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
13 1823 
  • 1823: Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
14 1824 
  • 1824: Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
  • 1824: Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
15 1825 
  • 1825: John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
  • 1825: William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.