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Date |
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| 1 | 1868 | - 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
- 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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| 2 | 1869 | - 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 3 | 1872 | - 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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| 4 | 1873 | - 1873: Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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| 5 | 1874 | - 1874: American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
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| 6 | 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.
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| 7 | 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.
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| 8 | 1878 | - 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
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1868 - 1879 (11 years)