Timelines of inventions 1800 - 1899

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* 1837: Steel plow: John Deere

* 1837: Standard diving dress: Augustus Siebe

* 1837: Camera Zoom Lens: Jozef Maximilián Petzval

* 1838: Electric telegraph: Charles Wheatstone (also Samuel Morse)

* 1838: Forerunner of Morse code: Alfred Vail

* 1838: closed diving suit with a helmet: Augustus Siebe

* 1839: Vulcanization of rubber: Charles Goodyear

[edit] 1840s

* 1840: Screw-propelled frigate, USS Princeton: John Ericsson

* 1840: artificial fertilizer: Justus von Liebig

* 1842: Anaesthesia: Crawford Long

* 1843: Typewriter: Charles Thurber

* 1843: Fax machine: Alexander Bain

* 1843: Ice cream maker: Nancy Johnson

* 1845: Portland cement: William Aspdin

* 1845: Double tube tire: Robert Thomson (inventor)

* 1846: Sewing machine: Elias Howe

* 1846: Rotary printing press: Richard M. Hoe

* 1849: Safety pin: Walter Hunt

* 1849: Francis turbine: James B. Francis

* 1849: Telephone: Antonio Meucci

[edit] 1850s

* 1852: Airship: Henri Giffard

* 1852: Passenger elevator: Elisha Otis

* 1852: Gyroscope: Léon Foucault

* 1855: Bunsen burner: Robert Bunsen

* 1855: Bessemer process: Henry Bessemer

* 1856: First celluloids: Alexander Parkes

* 1858: Undersea telegraph cable: Fredrick Newton Gisborne

* 1858: Shoe sole sewing machine: Lyman R. Blake

* 1858: Mason jar: John L. Mason

* 1859: Oil drill: Edwin L. Drake

[edit] 1860s

* 1860: Linoleum: Fredrick Walton

* 1860: Repeating rifle: Oliver F. Winchester, Christopher Spencer

* 1860: Self-propelled torpedo: Giovanni Luppis

* 1861: Ironclad USS Monitor: John Ericsson

* 1861: Siemens regenerative furnace: Carl Wilhelm Siemens

* 1862: Revolving machine gun: Richard J. Gatling

* 1862: Mechanical submarine: Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol

* 1862: Pasteurization: Louis Pasteur, Claude Bernard

* 1863: Player piano: Henri Fourneaux

* 1864: First concept typewriter: Peter Mitterhofer

* 1865: Compression ice machine: Thaddeus Lowe

* 1865: Roller Coaster: LaMarcus Adna Thompson

* 1865: Barbed wire: Louis Jannin

* 1866: Dynamite: Alfred Nobel

* 1868: First practical typewriter: Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule, with assistance from James Densmore

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