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Male 1840 - 1863  (22 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1840 
  • 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
1841 
  • 1841: William H. Harrison president of the USA. William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia 1841.
  • 1841: John Tyler president of the USA 1841-1845. John Tyler the first vice president to succeed to the presidency due to death of a president.
  • 1841: Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
1842 
  • 1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
1843 
  • 1843: Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
1844 
  • 1844: Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
1845 
  • 1845: James Polk president of the USA 1845-1849.
  • 1845: American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
  • 1845: Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
1846 
  • 1846: Mexican-American War 1846-1848.
  • 1846: Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
1847 
  • 1847: Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
1849 
  • 1849: Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office.
  • 1849: Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
10 1850 
  • 1850: Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death.
  • 1850: Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent.
11 1851 
  • 1851: Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
12 1853 
  • 1853: Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
13 1854 
  • 1854: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
14 1855 
  • 1855: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
15 1856 
  • 1856: Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
16 1857 
  • 1857: James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
  • 1857: George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
17 1858 
  • 1858: Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
  • 1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
18 1861 
  • 1861: USA Civil War begins.
  • 1861: Abraham Lincoln president of the USA 1861-1865.
  • 1861: Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
  • 1861: Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
19 1862 
  • 1862: Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
  • 1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.