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A.k.a. the »voltaic pile«
Inventor: Alessandro Volta
»Building on Galvani's 1780s discovery of how a circuit of two metals and a frog's leg can cause the frog's leg to respond« (wikipedia)
Luigi Galvani was born to Domenico and Barbara Foschi in Bologna, Italy. His father, Domenico, was a goldsmith and his mother Barbara, was Domenico's fourth wife. His family was not aristoRead more ... -
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Queen Victoria reigned and the British Empire flourished.
Also, this was a period of much technological advancement. Wikipedia -
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People have probably used some sort of sanitary towels for ages, but it was in 1880 that The British Perforated Paper Company began selling toilet paper. Here's a not very authoritative source
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According to one wikipedia source the first mass production of an »affordable automobile« was that of the Oldsmobile by Ransom Olds at his factory in Lansing, Michigan in the United States.
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