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Date |
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| 1 | 1866 | - 1866: Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
- 1866: J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
- 1866: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
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| 2 | 1867 | - 1867: Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
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| 3 | 1868 | - 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
- 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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| 4 | 1869 | - 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 5 | 1872 | - 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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| 6 | 1873 | - 1873: Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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1866 - 1873 (6 years)