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John W Perkins

Male 1832 - 1854  (21 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1832 
  • 1832: Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836.
  • 1832: Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
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.
1835 
  • 1835: Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
  • 1835: Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
  • 1835: Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
  • 1835: Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography.
1836 
  • 1836: Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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: Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
  • 1837: English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
  • 1837: Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
1838 
  • 1838: Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
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.
1840 
  • 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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.
  • 1841: William H. Harrison president of the USA. William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia 1841.
  • 1841: Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
10 1842 
  • 1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
11 1843 
  • 1843: Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
12 1844 
  • 1844: Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
13 1845 
  • 1845: American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
  • 1845: James Polk president of the USA 1845-1849.
  • 1845: Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
14 1846 
  • 1846: Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
  • 1846: Mexican-American War 1846-1848.
15 1847 
  • 1847: Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
16 1849 
  • 1849: Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office.
  • 1849: Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
17 1850 
  • 1850: Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death.
  • 1850: Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent.
18 1851 
  • 1851: Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
19 1853 
  • 1853: Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
20 1854 
  • 1854: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.