List of Inventions Introduced Between 1790 and 1850

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    1800-1810

    1800- J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard loom.
    1800- Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
    1804- Friedrich Winzer (Frederick Albert Winsor) patented coal-gas.
    1804- Richard Trevithick develops a steam-powered locomotive but is unable to produce a viable prototype.
    1809- Humphry Davy invents the arc lamp, the first electric light.
    1810- German Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
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    1810-1819

    1810- Peter Durand invents the tin can.
    1814- The first successful steam locomotive, designed by George Stephenson.
    1814- Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectroscope
    1814- Using a camera obscura, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first photograph.
    1815-Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
    1816- René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
    1819-Samuel Fahnestock patents the soda fountain.
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    1820-1829

    1823- Charles Mackintosh invents his eponymous raincoat
    1824- Michael Faraday invents the toy balloons.
    1824- Joseph Aspdin takes out an English patent for Portland cement.
    1825- William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet.
    1827- John Walker invents modern-day matches.
    1827- Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
    1829- W.A. Burt invents the typographer.
    1829-Louis Braille develops his eponymous method of raised printing to be read by the blind.​​​​
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    1830-1836

    1830- Barthelemy Thimonnier invents a rudimentary sewing machine.
    1831- Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially viable reaper.
    1831-Michael Faraday invents the electric dynamo.
    1834- Henry Blair invents the corn planter.
    1834- Jacob Perkins invents and ether ice machine
    1835- Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
    1835- Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
    1836- Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson invent the propellor.
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    1836-1839

    1836- Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson team up to invent the propellor.
    1836- Samuel Colt invents the first revolver.
    1837- Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
    1837- Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
    1839- Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
    1839- Charles Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber.
    1839- Louis Daguerre invents the daguerreotype.
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    1840-1850

    1840-John Herschel invents the blueprint.
    1841-Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
    1844-John Mercer invents a process to increase the tensile strength.
    1845-Elias Howe invents the modern sewing machine.
    1845-Robert William Thomson patents pneumatic tires made of vulcanized rubber.
    1845- William Morton is the first to use anesthesia for a tooth extraction.
    1847-Hungarian Ignaz Semmelweis invents antiseptics.
    1848-Waldo Hanchett patents the dentist's chair.
    1849-Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.