Historic Timeline of Science By cgiles19 Oct 5, 1784 Ben Franklin invents bifocals Ben Frankin Inventions Oct 5, 1786 First Ice Cream Made in New York City ice cream Oct 5, 1793 Eli Whitney invented first cotton gin Eli Whitney Cotton Gin Oct 5, 1800 Volta Events Electric Battery Electric Battery Oct 5, 1803 Dalton devises table of elements Daltons table of elements Oct 5, 1811 First steamboat sail down the Mississippi rfeached New Orleans Steamboat Oct 5, 1817 Construction began on the Erie Canal Erie Canal Oct 5, 1839 Daguerre invents first form of photography Photography Oct 5, 1851 Singer Sewing Machine patent sewing machine Oct 5, 1854 Smith Wesson invent revolver revolver Oct 5, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone tellephone Oct 5, 1879 Thomas Edison invents incandescent light incandescent light Oct 5, 1899 Sigmond Freud interpretation of dreams dreams Oct 5, 1903 Wright bros first airplane airplane Oct 6, 1937 Dow Chemical development of Plastics plastics Oct 6, 1957 Soviets launch Sputnik first artificial satelite sputnik Oct 6, 1961 Kennedy launches Apollo project apollo Oct 6, 1969 First Man on th Moon moon Oct 6, 1978 personal computer personal computer Oct 6, 1980 CD, VCR, Cabel became common Oct 6, 1993 Internet Expands Worldwide Web World Wide Web Oct 6, 1997 Nasa spacecraft lands on Mars mars Oct 6, 2000 First animal cloned dolly Oct 6, 2010 CERN Scientist trap anti matter antimatter