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  • Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
  • Pierre Michaux invents a bicycle.
  • Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
1862
  • Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
  • Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
1866
  • Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
  • J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
  • Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo
1867
  • Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
1868
1872
  • J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
  • A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
1873
1874
  • American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
1876
1877
1878
  • Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb
1880
  • The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
  • Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
1881
  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
  • David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
  • Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
  • Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
  • John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
  • Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
1889
  • Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
  • Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
1891
1892
1893
  • American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
  • Edward Goodrich Acheson invents carborundum.
1895
  • Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe
  • Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
1896
  • American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
1898
  • Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
  • Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine.
1899
  • I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
  • J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.

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