-
The Early Scrubboard
This is a drawing of the first type of clothes washer, the scrubboard. -
Period: to
Lifestyle Inventions in the late 19th Century
-
Period: to
Clipper Ships in Regular Usage
-
Fulton's First Steamboat
On the 17th of August, inventor and artist John Fulton sailed his first commercially succesful steamboat from Albany to New York City, and back. At this time, many of the early pioneers preferred to use the steamboat as their main form of tranportation. In 1787, a steamboat travelled through the Delaware River, but Fulton's was the first ever commercially successful steamboat created. -
Cooper's "Tom Thumb" the Train
In 1830, Peter Cooper made the first ever steam locomotive: the "Tom Thumb." This new invention could propel itself at 18 miles per hour, which is 3 times the speed of the average horse-drawn cart. Railroads were useful in the colder regioin of the United States becasue they could not freeze over, and their trans were much faster. -
The First Dishwasher Patent
In 1850 Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent. This machine was made of wood and required you to hand-turn a wheel that caused water to splash on the dishes. This design barely worked. The first practical and working dishwasher was invented by a women Josephine Cochrane in 1886. She invented it using a similar design from Houghton's idea.
This device was created in Odgen, New York -
Patent for Clothes Drum
In 1858, Hamilton Smith lodges a patent application for an early incarnation of the washing machine. Although it is still hand-powered, it is able to compress and remove dirt from cloth products. In 1910, a patent was issued for a motorized version of Hamilton's invention. -
"QWERTY"
In late 1874, Christopher Shoal invented the world's first typewriter. The typewriter, known as the "Sholes and Glidden" was created in Ilion, New York, which is close to Ithaca. The machine costed $125 to purchase, and was the first ever typeset to be commercially produced. It contained the common "QWERTY" keyboard layout, which was invented by Mr. Shoal. -
Time For the Telephone
On March 7th, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented his idea for an early telephone. Although the patent was applied for three years after Mr. Bell recieved the idea, it was revolutionary in its own right. Bell ws a teacher for the deaf, so his interest and curiosity for sound engineering was profound. His early telephone allowed messages to be transmitted over long distances. -
Edison's Electric Endeavors
According to the Thomas Edison Papers, contained at Rutgers University, the Electric Bulb was created in 1878. This early type of device, used for illuminating small spaces, was at the time, one of the most influential inventions of the era. Used to light buildings from the smallest of homes to the largest of train stations by the end of the 19th Century, this invention might have also brought Thomas Edison to the "Center Stage." The patent for this invention was processed in November of 1879 -
Seeley's Interest in the Iron
In 1852, the first patent was issued for an early prototype of the charcoal iron. In 1882, however, inventor Henry W. Seely invented and patented a modern, electrically charged charcoal iron. The Patent was finalized on the 6th of June, in 1882. Charcoal was used in the iron because it was a good conductor of heat, it was malleable, and the material can be molded into different shapes. -
The Upton Machine Co.
The Upton Machine Co. was the first ever machine dedicated solely to manufacturing washing equipment. It is now known as the Whirlpool Company.
