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Ellen A Durkee

Female 1836 - 1902  (65 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1836 
  • 1836: Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
1837 
  • 1837: Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
  • 1837: Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
  • 1837: English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
  • 1837: Victoria. Ruler of England 1837-1901. House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort.
1838 
  • 1838: Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
1839 
  • 1839: Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
  • 1839: Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
  • 1839: American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
  • 1839: Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
  • 1839: American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
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.
10 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.
11 1846 
  • 1846: Mexican-American War 1846-1848.
  • 1846: Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
12 1847 
  • 1847: Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
13 1849 
  • 1849: Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office.
  • 1849: Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
14 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.
15 1851 
  • 1851: Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
16 1853 
  • 1853: Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
17 1854 
  • 1854: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
18 1855 
  • 1855: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
19 1856 
  • 1856: Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
20 1857 
  • 1857: James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
  • 1857: George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
21 1858 
  • 1858: Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
  • 1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
22 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.
23 1862 
  • 1862: Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
  • 1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
24 1865 
  • 1865: USA Civil War ends.
  • 1865: Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 Apr 1865 and dies the next day.
  • 1865: Andrew Johnson president of the USA 1865-1869. Andrew Johnson, vice president under Abraham Lincoln, sworn in as president upon Lincoln's death.
25 1866 
  • 1866: Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
  • 1866: J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
  • 1866: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
26 1867 
  • 1867: Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
27 1868 
  • 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
  • 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
  • 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
28 1869 
  • 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
29 1872 
  • 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
  • 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
30 1873 
  • 1873: Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
31 1874 
  • 1874: American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
32 1876 
  • 1876: Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
  • 1876: Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
33 1877 
  • 1877: Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
  • 1877: Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
  • 1877: Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
34 1878 
  • 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
35 1880 
  • 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
36 1881 
  • 1881: James Garfield president of the USA 1881. James Garfield wounded by assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies 19 Sep 1881.
  • 1881: Chester A. Arthur president of the USA 1881-1885. Chester A. Arthur, vice president under James Garfield, sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield.
  • 1881: David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
  • 1881: Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
  • 1881: Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
37 1884 
  • 1884: James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
  • 1884: Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
  • 1884: Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
  • 1884: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
38 1885 
  • 1885: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
  • 1885: Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
  • 1885: Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
  • 1885: Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
39 1886 
  • 1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • 1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
40 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.
41 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.
42 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.
43 1891 
  • 1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
44 1892 
  • 1892: Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
  • 1892: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
45 1893 
  • 1893: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
  • 1893: American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
46 1895 
  • 1895: Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
47 1896 
  • 1896: American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
48 1897 
  • 1897: William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
49 1898 
  • 1898: Spanish-American War: United States vs Spain 1898.
  • 1898: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
50 1899 
  • 1899: J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
  • 1899: I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
51 1900 
  • 1900: The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
  • 1900: Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
52 1901 
  • 1901: Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley.
  • 1901: King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
  • 1901: The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
  • 1901: Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.
  • 1901: Edward VII. Ruler of England 1901-1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.
53 1902 
  • 1902: Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
  • 1902: French physicist George Claude invents neon light.
  • 1902: The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
  • 1902: The birth of the Teddy Bear.