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William Perkins

Male 1792 - 1822  (29 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1792 
  • 1792: William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
  • 1792: The first ambulance.
1794 
  • 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
  • 1794: Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
1795 
  • 1795: Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
1796 
  • 1796: Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
1797 
  • 1797: John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
  • 1797: A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
  • 1797: Wittemore patents a carding machine.
1798 
  • 1798: Franco-American Naval War: United States vs France 1798-1800.
  • 1798: Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
  • 1798: The first soft drink invented.
1799 
  • 1799: Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
  • 1799: Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
1800 
  • 1800: Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
1801 
  • 1801: USA: Tripolitan War 1801-1805. Barbary Wars: also fought in 1815. United States vs Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 1801-1805.
  • 1801: Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
10 1804 
  • 1804: Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
  • 1804: Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
11 1809 
  • 1809: James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
  • 1809: Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
12 1810 
  • 1810: German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
  • 1810: Peter Durand invents the tin can.
13 1812 
  • 1812: War of 1812: United States vs Great Britain 1812-1815.
14 1813 
  • 1813: Creek War: United States vs Creek Indians 1813-1814.
15 1814 
  • 1814: George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
  • 1814: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
  • 1814: German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
  • 1814: The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
16 1815 
  • 1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
17 1817 
  • 1817: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
18 1819 
  • 1819: René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
  • 1819: Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
19 1820 
  • 1820: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.