Print Bookmark

Electa Jane Woods

Female 1838 - 1887  (49 years)


Chart width:      Refresh

Timeline



 
 
 




   Date  Event(s)
1838 
  • 1838: Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
1839 
  • 1839: Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
  • 1839: American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
  • 1839: Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
  • 1839: American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
  • 1839: Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
1840 
  • 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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.
1842 
  • 1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
1843 
  • 1843: Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
1844 
  • 1844: Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
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: Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
  • 1846: Mexican-American War 1846-1848.
10 1847 
  • 1847: Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
11 1849 
  • 1849: Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
  • 1849: Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office.
12 1850 
  • 1850: Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent.
  • 1850: Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death.
13 1851 
  • 1851: Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
14 1853 
  • 1853: Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
15 1854 
  • 1854: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
16 1855 
  • 1855: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
17 1856 
  • 1856: Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
18 1857 
  • 1857: George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
  • 1857: James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
19 1858 
  • 1858: Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
  • 1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
20 1861 
  • 1861: Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
  • 1861: Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
  • 1861: Abraham Lincoln president of the USA 1861-1865.
  • 1861: USA Civil War begins.
21 1862 
  • 1862: Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
  • 1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
22 1865 
  • 1865: USA Civil War ends.
  • 1865: Andrew Johnson president of the USA 1865-1869. Andrew Johnson, vice president under Abraham Lincoln, sworn in as president upon Lincoln's death.
  • 1865: Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 Apr 1865 and dies the next day.
23 1866 
  • 1866: Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
  • 1866: J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
  • 1866: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
24 1867 
  • 1867: Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
25 1868 
  • 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
  • 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
  • 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
26 1869 
  • 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
27 1872 
  • 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
  • 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
28 1873 
  • 1873: Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
29 1874 
  • 1874: American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
30 1876 
  • 1876: Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
  • 1876: Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
31 1877 
  • 1877: Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
  • 1877: Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
  • 1877: Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
32 1878 
  • 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
33 1880 
  • 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
34 1881 
  • 1881: David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
  • 1881: Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
  • 1881: Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
  • 1881: James Garfield president of the USA 1881. James Garfield wounded by assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies 19 Sep 1881.
  • 1881: Chester A. Arthur president of the USA 1881-1885. Chester A. Arthur, vice president under James Garfield, sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield.
35 1884 
  • 1884: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
  • 1884: Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
  • 1884: Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
  • 1884: James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
36 1885 
  • 1885: Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
  • 1885: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
  • 1885: Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
  • 1885: Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
37 1886 
  • 1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • 1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
38 1887 
  • 1887: German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
  • 1887: Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
  • 1887: F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.