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Timeline
1624 First cattle to America
1712 Whaling industry takes off, steam engine invented
1719 1st potatoes grown in America (NH)
1752 Franklin experiments with lightning rod
1755 1st dictionary published
1774 Electric telegraph patented
1775 Steamship invented
1780 Franklin invented bifocal eyeglasses
1783 Hot air balloon invented
1784 Threshing machine invented
1785 Power loom invented
1786 Steamboat invented
1789 Guillotine invented
1790 1st cotton mill (Slater’s Mill, RI)
1791 gas turbine invented, bicycle invented (Scotland)
1792 gas lighting invented
1993 Cotton gin invented
1795 Preserving jar invented
1796 Smallpox vaccination created
1797 Carding machine patented
1799 Battery invented
1805 Lewis & Clark
1806 Coffee pot with metal sieve invented
1810 100 cotton mills in existence
1814 Metal-tipped plough created
1826 1st American railroad
1830 1st American woolen mill (Lowell, MA)
1831 Reaping machines
1833 Sewing machine
1834 Threshing machine
1840 3,000 miles of railroad in America
1842 Ether anesthesia
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