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Eli Whitney made the cotton gin
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Alessandro Volta invented the battery
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French silk weaver J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard loom.
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Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
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French silk weaver J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard loom.
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Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
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French silk weaver J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard loom.
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The Most Important Inventions of the 19th Century
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Friedrich Winzer (Frederick Albert Winsor) patented coal-gas.
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Friedrich Winzer (Frederick Albert Winsor) patented coal-gas.
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English mining engineer Richard Trevithick develops a steam-powered locomotive but is unable to produce a viable prototype.
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Humphry Davy invents the arc lamp, the first electric light.
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Humphry Davy invents the arc lamp, the first electric light.
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German Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
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Peter Durand invents the tin can.
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German Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
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The first successful steam locomotive, designed by George Stephenson, makes its debut.
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Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectroscope for use in the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
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Using a camera obscura, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first photograph. The process takes eight hours.
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Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
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René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
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Samuel Fahnestock patents the soda fountain.
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Charles Mackintosh invents his eponymous raincoat (a.k.a. "the Mac") in Scotland.
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Professor Michael Faraday invents the toy balloons.
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Joseph Aspdin takes out an English patent for Portland cement.
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William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet.
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John Walker invents modern-day matches.
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Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
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W.A. Burt invents the typographer, the precursor to the typewriter.
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Louis Braille develops his eponymous method of raised printing to be read by the blind.
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Frenchman Barthelemy Thimonnier invents a rudimentary sewing machine.
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Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially viable reaper.
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Michael Faraday invents the electric dynamo.
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Henry Blair, the second African American to receive a U.S. patent, invents the corn planter.
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Jacob Perkins invents and ether ice machine, a precursor to the modern refrigerator.
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Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
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Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
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Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson team up to invent the propellor.
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Samuel Colt invents the first revolver.
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Samuel Morse invents the telegraph. (Morse code arrives the following year.)
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English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
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Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
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Charles Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber.
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Louis Daguerre invents the daguerreotype.
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Englishmen John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
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Englishman John Mercer invents a process to increase the tensile strength and affinity for dyes in cotton thread.
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Elias Howe invents the modern sewing machine.
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Robert William Thomson patents pneumatic tires made of vulcanized rubber.
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Massachusetts dentist Dr. William Morton is the first to use anesthesia for a tooth extraction.
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Hungarian Ignaz Semmelweis invents antiseptics.
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Waldo Hanchett patents the dentist's chair.
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Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
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Isaac Singer invents his eponymous sewing machine, and four years later, patents a sewing machine motor.