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1800 inventions
The period after 1800 saw rapid and numerous inventions. Some of the renowned inventions of this period are listed below:
- 1800 Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom. Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- 1804 Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
- 1809 Humphry Davy invents the first electric light the first arc lamp.
- 1814 George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
- 1815 Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
- 1825 William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
- 1827 John Walker invents the modern matches.
- 1829 American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter. Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing.
- 1831 Michael Faraday invents an electric dynamo.
- 1836 Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson co-invent the propellor. Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
- 1837 Samuel Morse invents the telegraph. English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
- 1845 American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine. Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
- 1849 Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
- 1850 Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent in 1850.
- 1852 Airship invented by Henri Giffard of France.
- 1853 Glider invented by George Cayley of England.
- 1859 Internal Combustion Engine invented by Jean-Joseph-Étienne Lenoir of Belgium.
- 1861 Bicycle invented by Pierre Michaux of France.
- 1862 Plastic invented by Alexander Parkes of England.
- 1866 Dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel of Sweden.
- 1876 Telephone invented by Alexander Bell of Scotland.
- 1884 Fountain Pen invented by Lewis Waterman of USA.
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