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Richard Melvin

Male 1768 - 1824  (56 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1768 
  • 1768: Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
1769 
  • 1769: James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
1774 
  • 1774: Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
1775 
  • 1775: American Revolution: English Colonists vs Great Britain 1775-1783.
  • 1775: Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
  • 1775: Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
1776 
  • 1776: USA: signing of the Declaration of Independence.
  • 1776: David Bushnell invents a submarine.
1779 
  • 1779: Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
1780 
  • 1780: Gervinus invents the circular saw.
  • 1780: Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
1783 
  • 1783: Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
  • 1783: Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
  • 1783: Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
  • 1783: Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
1784 
  • 1784: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
  • 1784: Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
10 1785 
  • 1785: Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
  • 1785: Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
  • 1785: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
  • 1785: Blanchard invents a working parachute.
11 1786 
  • 1786: John Fitch invents a steamboat.
12 1789 
  • 1789: The guillotine is invented.
  • 1789: George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
13 1790 
  • 1790: The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
14 1791 
  • 1791: Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
  • 1791: John Barber invents the gas turbine.
15 1792 
  • 1792: The first ambulance.
  • 1792: William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
16 1794 
  • 1794: Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
  • 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
17 1795 
  • 1795: Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
18 1796 
  • 1796: Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
19 1797 
  • 1797: A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
  • 1797: Wittemore patents a carding machine.
  • 1797: John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
20 1798 
  • 1798: Franco-American Naval War: United States vs France 1798-1800.
  • 1798: Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
  • 1798: The first soft drink invented.
21 1799 
  • 1799: Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
  • 1799: Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
22 1800 
  • 1800: Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
23 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.
24 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.
25 1809 
  • 1809: Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
  • 1809: James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
26 1810 
  • 1810: German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
  • 1810: Peter Durand invents the tin can.
27 1812 
  • 1812: War of 1812: United States vs Great Britain 1812-1815.
28 1813 
  • 1813: Creek War: United States vs Creek Indians 1813-1814.
29 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.
30 1815 
  • 1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
31 1817 
  • 1817: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
32 1819 
  • 1819: René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
  • 1819: Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
33 1820 
  • 1820: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
34 1823 
  • 1823: Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
35 1824 
  • 1824: Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
  • 1824: Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.