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Date |
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| 1 | 1887 | - 1887: German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
- 1887: Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
- 1887: F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
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| 2 | 1888 | - 1888: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
- 1888: Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
- 1888: Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
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| 3 | 1889 | - 1889: Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
- 1889: Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
- 1889: Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
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| 4 | 1891 | - 1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
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| 5 | 1892 | - 1892: Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
- 1892: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
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1887 - 1892 (4 years)