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| 1 | 1831 | - 1831: American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
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| 2 | 1832 | - 1832: Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836.
- 1832: Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
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| 3 | 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.
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| 4 | 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.
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| 5 | 1836 | - 1836: Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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| 6 | 1837 | - 1837: Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
- 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: Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
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| 7 | 1838 | - 1838: Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
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| 8 | 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.
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| 9 | 1840 | - 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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| 10 | 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.
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| 11 | 1842 | - 1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
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| 12 | 1843 | - 1843: Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
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| 13 | 1844 | - 1844: Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
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1831 - 1844 (12 years)