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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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