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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.