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Fred Henry Perkins

Male 1853 - 1872  (19 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1853 
  • 1853: Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
1854 
  • 1854: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
1855 
  • 1855: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
1856 
  • 1856: Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
1857 
  • 1857: James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
  • 1857: George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
1858 
  • 1858: Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
  • 1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
1861 
  • 1861: USA Civil War begins.
  • 1861: Abraham Lincoln president of the USA 1861-1865.
  • 1861: Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
  • 1861: Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
1862 
  • 1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
  • 1862: Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
1865 
  • 1865: USA Civil War ends.
  • 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: Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 Apr 1865 and dies the next day.
10 1866 
  • 1866: Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
  • 1866: J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
  • 1866: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
11 1867 
  • 1867: Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
12 1868 
  • 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
  • 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
  • 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
13 1869 
  • 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
14 1872 
  • 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
  • 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.