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Frank Orlando Woods

Male 1868 - 1891  (23 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
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: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
  • 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
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: Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
  • 1877: Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
  • 1877: Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
1878 
  • 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
1880 
  • 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
10 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.
11 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.
12 1885 
  • 1885: Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
  • 1885: Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
  • 1885: Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
  • 1885: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
13 1886 
  • 1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • 1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
14 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.
15 1888 
  • 1888: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
  • 1888: Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
  • 1888: Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
16 1889 
  • 1889: Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
  • 1889: Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
  • 1889: Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
17 1891 
  • 1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.