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William Perkins

Male 1863 - 1882  (18 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1865 
  • 1865: Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 Apr 1865 and dies the next day.
  • 1865: Andrew Johnson president of the USA 1865-1869. Andrew Johnson, vice president under Abraham Lincoln, sworn in as president upon Lincoln's death.
  • 1865: USA Civil War ends.
1866 
  • 1866: Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
  • 1866: J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
  • 1866: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
1867 
  • 1867: Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
1868 
  • 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
  • 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
  • 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
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: Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
  • 1876: Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
10 1877 
  • 1877: Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
  • 1877: Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
  • 1877: Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
11 1878 
  • 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
12 1880 
  • 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
13 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.