Print Bookmark

Mary Alvira “Alvira” Smith

Female 1867 - 1886  (18 years)


Chart width:      Refresh

Timeline



 
 
 




   Date  Event(s)
1867 
  • 1867: Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
1868 
  • 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
  • 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
  • 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
1869 
  • 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
1872 
  • 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
  • 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
1873 
  • 1873: Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
1874 
  • 1874: American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
1876 
  • 1876: Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
  • 1876: Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
1877 
  • 1877: Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
  • 1877: Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
  • 1877: Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
1878 
  • 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
10 1880 
  • 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
11 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.
  • 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: 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.
12 1884 
  • 1884: James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
  • 1884: Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
  • 1884: Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
  • 1884: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
13 1885 
  • 1885: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
  • 1885: Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
  • 1885: Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
  • 1885: Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
14 1886 
  • 1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • 1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.