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William A. Gilbert

Male Abt 1798 - 1841  (43 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1798 
  • 1798: The first soft drink invented.
  • 1798: Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
  • 1798: Franco-American Naval War: United States vs France 1798-1800.
1799 
  • 1799: Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
  • 1799: Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
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.
10 1814 
  • 1814: The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
  • 1814: German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
  • 1814: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
  • 1814: George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
11 1815 
  • 1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
12 1817 
  • 1817: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
13 1819 
  • 1819: René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
  • 1819: Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
14 1820 
  • 1820: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
15 1823 
  • 1823: Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
16 1824 
  • 1824: Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
  • 1824: Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
17 1825 
  • 1825: John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
  • 1825: William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
18 1827 
  • 1827: Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
  • 1827: John Walker invents the modern matches.
19 1829 
  • 1829: American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
  • 1829: Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837.
  • 1829: William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
  • 1829: Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing.
20 1830 
  • 1830: William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
  • 1830: Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
21 1831 
  • 1831: American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
22 1832 
  • 1832: Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836.
  • 1832: Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
23 1834 
  • 1834: Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
  • 1834: Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
24 1835 
  • 1835: Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
  • 1835: Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography.
  • 1835: Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
  • 1835: Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
25 1836 
  • 1836: Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
26 1837 
  • 1837: Victoria. Ruler of England 1837-1901. House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort.
  • 1837: English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
  • 1837: Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
  • 1837: Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
27 1838 
  • 1838: Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
28 1839 
  • 1839: Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
  • 1839: Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
  • 1839: American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
  • 1839: Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
  • 1839: American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
29 1840 
  • 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
30 1841 
  • 1841: Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
  • 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.