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Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom; Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery
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In 1801 Richard Trevithick ran a full-sized steam 'road locomotive' on a road in Camborne, England
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in 1803 Richard Trevithick built the first 10-seater "London steam carriage"
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The world's first steamboat makes its first movement.
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Richard Trevithick yet again helps the world, building the world’s first railway locomotive.
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Oliver Evans demonstrated the first steam powered amphibious vehicle
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Humphry Davy develops electrolysis into an important chemical technique and uses it to identify a number of new elements.
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Nicephore Niepce installs the first internal combustion engine on a boat. This is called a Pyreolophore.
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Internal combustion engines are being but in boats in order to run them.
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Isaac De Rivas made a hydrogen gas powered internal combustion engine and installed it onto a vehicle.
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Humphry Davy develops the electric arc lamp.
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the causes of the War of 1812 began to emerge. Four thousand naturalized American sailors had been seized by British forces by this year
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New Jersey is started on John Steven's ship, the Juliana.
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The first steam-powered ferry service between New York City and Hoboken
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The Pacific Fur Company is formed by John Jacob Astor.
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An earthquake near New Madrid, in the Mississippi Valley, reverses the course of the Mississippi River for a period of time. This quake was the first of two major earthquakes which preceded the largest quake ever in the US two months later.
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American journalist, editor, and publisher, Horace Greeley, is born.
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Although unaware of the blockade at the time of their vote, Madison signs declaration after Congress narrowly approves war with Great Britain.
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The city directory of Albany, New York is first published.
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(Pic wont show?George Stephenson built the first steam powered railway locomotive.
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The White House is burned by British forces upon the occupation of Washington,
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A peace treaty is signed between the British and American government at Ghent, bringing to an end the War of 1812.
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Stevenson runs and starts the first public railway
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First locomotive that runs on rails.
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William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet
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Sir Goldsworth Gurney invented multiple steam powered passenger carriages.
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Omnibus. The Horse drawn vehicle can carry 10 to 15 people.
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American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter
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First public transport system without animal traction
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first tunnels under streets
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first proper modern railway which formed the template for all subsequent railways.
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Frenchmen, Barthelemy Thimonnier invents a newer sewing machine
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first railway between 2 large towns
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first railway stations
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Liverpool Manchester Railway opens.
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Moritz Jacobi creates the first REAL electric motor
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American, Cyrus McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper
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Michael Faraday invents a electric dynamo..Used foris an electrical generator that produces direct current with the use of a commutator.
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Horse drawn cars for people made for public.
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Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent
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Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator type device... an ether ice machine.
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First hansom cab is made.
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Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson co invent the propeller Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s SS Great Western is the first Trans Atlantic Steamship.
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Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
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Ships can travel across the Atlantic ocean in 19 days.
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Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co invent Daguerreotype photography
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle
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Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell
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American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization. (chemical process for converting natural rubber or related polymers into more durable materials)
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Massachusetts became the first state to pass laws limiting how many hours a child laborer could be forced to work.
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Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile...It is essentially a copier.
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The first 'wagon train' was the wave of migration that started in 1843, and had followed John Bidwell's 1841 train
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7Florida became the 27th state of the United States of America.
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The New York Knickerbockers are formed and define a set of rules similar to the game today.
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Stephen Perry patents the Rubber Band.
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The U.S. Naval Academy of Annapolis was founded in 1845 for officers of the U.S. Navy and Marines.
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Texas, after gaining independence from Mexico in 1836 , became the largest state in the contiguous United States in 1845.
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First trip around the world on a steamship.
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Louis Pasteur develops pasteurization: a way of preserving food by heating it to kill off bacteria.
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California became The 31st state of the United States of America
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Elisha Otis makes the first safety elevator.
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Henri Giffard builds an airship powered by the first aircraft engine an unsuccessful design
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Sir george Cayley built and demonstrated the first “heavier than air” aircraft (Glider)
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The Panama Railway crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific
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John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics (the use of thin flexible fibers of glass or other transparent solids to transmit light signals, chiefly for telecommunications or for internal examination of the body)
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Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine
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Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine
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Minnesota became The 32nd state of the United States of America
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ig Ben at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London rings out over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, England on the 31st of May in 1859 for the first time
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Oregon became The 33rd state of the United States of America
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Etienne Lenoir made the first gasoline engine automobile.
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Richard Gatling patents the machine gun
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Alexander Parkes invents the first man made plastic
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Metropolitan Railway opened first public underground railway.
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First subway opens (Not sandwich Subway)
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First modern motorcycle is invented.
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Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel
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J P Knight invents traffic lights
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Invented the compressed air brake for railway trains.
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American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher
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First ever 4 stroke motorcycle is made.
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Werner Von Siemens builds the first electric powered elevator.
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Karl Benz created the first internal combustion engine.
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Frenchmen, H. de Chardonnet invents rayon
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James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register
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Charles Parson patents the steam turbine
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George Eastman patents paper strip photographic film
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Motorcycles are being made with internal combustion engines.
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First gas pump is made.
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First long distance road trip on internal combustion engine. (Successful).
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The Indian Mutiny against British rule in India had been begun by Indian troops (sepoys) that were in the service of the British East India Company.
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First electric underground railway.
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Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator
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The pneumatic tire is created (Pneumatic meaning: Inflation of the tire).
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People start to manufacture cars for the public!
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Hildebrand and Wolfmuller became the first motorcycle available for people to buy
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Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe.
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Diesel engine came out for bigger vehicles.
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Ferdinand Von Zeppelin Builds first airship
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John Thurman patents the motor driven vacuum cleaner
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n Dublin, Ireland, Irish delegates convened to create what they called the �Irish Party� and denounced British atrocities in the Boer War.
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A Category 4 Hurricane with estimated winds of 135 miles per hour makes landfall on the city of Galveston, Texas.
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The Indian Motorcycle Company is founded.
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The Socialist Revolutionary Party is founded in Russia.
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Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner
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Wright brothers fly the first engine powered airplane
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Benjamin Holt invents a tractor
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John A. Fleming invents a vacuum diode or Fleming valve
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– Lewis Nixon invents the first sonar like device
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Lee Deforest invents electronic amplifying tube (triode)
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Henry Ford develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing with the introduction of the Ford Model T
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Chevrolet automobile company is founded.
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Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand cranked cameras
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Billy Durant who was forced out of general motors, founded his own company.
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Chevy introduces their first truck (Pickup). Model 490 car chassis.
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Planes can now get people from London to Paris.
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America’s Highway system is established.