Invention Technology History Timeline - From 1800 to 1900An invention technology history timeline from 1800 to 1900. |
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Invention Technology History Timeline From 1800 to 1900.Invention history timeline. 1800 The voltaic cell (Volta's pile) is invented by Alessandro Volta 1801 The first steam-powered pumping station is built near Philadelphia 1801 Discovery of ultraviolet (UV) radiation by Johann Wilhelm Ritter 1801 Joseph Jacquard invented the Jacquard loom 1802 Johann Wilhelm Ritter develops a dry cell battery 1805 Luigi Brugnatelli invents modern electroplating 1808 Humphry Davy demonstrates the first electric carbon arc light 1809 Gas-powered street lighting first appears in London 1815 Humphry Davy invents the safety lamp for use by miners 1816 Three years after building the first textile mill, Francis Lowell builds a power loom 1816 Frenchman Rene Lannec invents the stethoscope 1818 The molecular weights of more than 2000 compounds are published by Berzelius 1818 Savannah is the first steamship to cross the Atlantic 1820 Nicol invented the Nicol prism, a type of polarizer 1821 Seebeck invents the thermocouple 1821 Pierre Berthier discovered that iron-chromium alloys are corrosion resistant 1824 A patent for portland cement is given to Joseph Aspin 1825 Metallic aluminium produced by Hans Orsted 1827 Niepce produced the first photograph 1827 Amici invents the achromatic microscope lens 1827 The phosphorus match is developed by John Walker 1828 Hot blast technique for iron furnaces patented in Scotland 1829 Louis Braille invented embossed typing for the blind reader which bears his name 1830 Joseph Henry builds the first electromagnetic motor; it has little practical use 1830 Silver plating technique developed 1831 Invention of the safety fuse for explosives by William Bickford 1832 Fourneyron produces the first water turbine 1832 60/40 brass invented 1833 The electric telegraph is invented by Gauss 1833 Charles Babbage creates the first designs for his analytical engine 1834 Development of melamine by von Liebig 1835 James Bowman Lindsay develops lighting system for Dundee using light bulbs 1836 The first reliable source of electric current is produced, using copper and zinc. This 1836 Stone, Iron and Bronze Age classifications devised by Christian Thomsen 1836 Samuel Morse demonstrated first device to send signals over wires 1837 Electric motor first used in practical applications; model railroad car 1837 Invention of the telegraph 1838 Samuel Morse makes the first public demonstration of Morse Code 1838 Patent for fusion welding granted 1839 William Robert Grove developed the first fuel cell 1840 Kerosene lamps first used 1840 Lady Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace, wrote the first computer programs 1840 Englishman Charles Babbage invents the first mechanical computer 1840 Patent for telegraph granted in USA 1841 Ordnance Survey Act provided surveyors with legal access rights to all land for 1842 Becquerel photographs the Sun's spectrum 1843 Goodyear and Hancock individually apply for patents for vulcanization of rubber 1843 Wood is used for the first time in paper manufacture 1844 First telegraph key invented 1845 Faraday effect first noted on plane polarized light 1845 The Royal College of Chemistry founded 1846 Synthesis of nitroglycerin by Ascanio Sobrero 1846 The cylinder printing press is invented 1848 Kelvin develops his temperature scale 1849 Brewster builds the first model stereoscope 1850 Seebeck discovers 1850 Robert Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner 1851 Charles Babbage invented the occulting telegraph 1853 First petrol lamp developed 1853 Sir George Cayley builds and flies a glider 1854 Workable but expensive method of producing aluminum was developed 1854 Halladay windmill for pumping water invented 1855 Luigi Palmieri invents the mercury seismometer 1855 Patent granted for production of nitrocellulose 1856 Bessemer process for steel production introduced 1857 William Kelly invents the blast furnace for steel production 1857 The first synthetic dye factory was set up by William Perkin 1858 Warren de la Rue invents a photoheliograph device 1859 Gaston Plante invents a storage lead-acid battery 1859 Plucker invents the cathode ray tube 1860 Internal combustion engine developed by Lenoir 1860 First practical use of arc lighting 1860 Patent for resistance welding granted 1861 First color photograph put together by James Clerk Maxwell 1861 Auguste Mouchout granted patent for motor running on solar power 1863 Joseph Wilbrand invents TNT, trinitrotoluene 1863 French chemist Louis Pasteur invents the pasteurization process 1865 Nobel invents the blasting cap for detonating nitroglycerin 1866 Leclanche Cell invented by eponymous French engineer 1867 Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in the UK 1867 Fluorescent lamp devised and demonstrated by Becquerel 1868 Seimens open hearth process for steel production introduced 1869 Celluloid is first produced from cellulose nitrate and camphor 1871 Gramme introduced the first commercially-significant electric motor 1872 William Thomson invents a wireline sounding machine 1873 Glass fibres that can be woven into cloth made by Jules de Brunfaut 1876 Otto develops the first four-stroke internal combustion engine 1876 Invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell 1877 Thomas Edison invents the phonograph for sound recording and transmission 1877 W.G. Adams and R.E. Day made the first selenium cell 1878 Remington Number 2 typewriter invented 1878 Solar powered steam engine exhibited in Paris 1878 William Adams, British Deputy Registrar for India granted patent for solar engine 1879 Vaccine for cholera discovered 1879 Thomas Edison invents the light bulb 1880 John Milne invented the horizontal pendulum seismograph 1880 William Wheeler develops domestic lighting using light pipes from an arc lamp 1881 American scientist Michelson invents the interferometer 1881 Godalming, Surrey, first public electricity supply, generated via waterwheel 1881 First vaccine for anthrax 1881 First commercial dry cell battery invented by Carl Gassner 1882 First vaccine for rabies 1883 First Solar cells invented by Charles Fritts using selenium wafers 1883 Piezoelectricity discovered by Pierre Curie 1884 Charles Parsons builds a turbine 1884 Hilaire de Chardonnet synthesized the first artificial textile 1884 Daimler produces an internal combustion engine, which runs on petrol 1885 Eastman begins production and marketing of first commercial photographic film 1886 Economically viable method of producing aluminum was developed 1887 Celluloid film for photography produced 1888 Nikola Tesla designs alternating current (AC) power generator 1888 John Dunlop invents the pneumatic tyre 1888 Ballistite, a smokeless powder explosive, invented by Nobel 1888 Kodak develop the first mass-produced photographic camera 1888 Patent for carbon arc welding granted 1889 First direct dial telephone invented by Strowger 1890 First vaccine for tetanus 1890 First vaccine for diphtheria 1891 The invention of rayon 1891 Development of Kinetograph, used to show celluloid film movies 1892 Viscose patented by Cross, Bevan and Beadle 1892 Prototype radio designed by Nikola Tesla 1892 Dewar (vacuum) flask invented by James Dewar 1892 Rudolf Diesel develops the engine named after him 1892 Spectroheliograph invented by George Hale to take pictures of the Sun 1895 Rontgen discovers X-rays 1895 First electric hand drill invented by Fein 1895 Color separation of images 1895 Henry Saint-Rene creates an early type of television using bent glass rods 1895 Lumiere brothers develop cinematographe 1895 First hearing aid devised by Miller Reese Hutchison 1895 Marconi pioneers the wireless telegram 1896 Radioactivity is discovered by Becquerel 1896 First vaccine for typhoid fever 1896 Hydroelectric power generators designed by Tesla became operational 1897 Synthesis of aspirin by Felix Hoffman 1897 First vaccine for plague 1897 Radio message sent by Marconi over 20 mile distance 1897 Rudolf Diesel, a German engineer, builds a compression-ignition engine 1897 First explorers, led by Adrian de Gerlache, winter in Antarctica 1898 Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium and polonium radioactive isotopes 1898 Patent application filed for a bent glass rod to be used as a surgical lamp 1899 The inverted pendulum seismograph was invented by Emil Wiechert 1899 Johan Vaaler invented the paperclip 1899 Waldmar Jungner invents the rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery 1900 Ferdinand von Zeppelin builds the first airship 1900 Three-lens multispectral camera invented by Ives 1900 Nikola Tesla gets US. patent for a 'system of transmitting electrical energy' 1900 Dr. Rudolf Diesel demonstrated an engine which ran on peanut oil This invention history timeline continues on the next page:
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