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| 1 | 1872 | - 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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| 2 | 1873 | - 1873: Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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| 3 | 1874 | - 1874: American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 1878 | - 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
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| 7 | 1880 | - 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
- 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
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| 8 | 1881 | - 1881: Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
- 1881: Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
- 1881: David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
- 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.
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1872 - 1883 (11 years)