HISTORY   1851 - 1900
Date Event
1851 Earth Rotation - Jean Foucault
1851 Continuous Stitch Sewing Machine - Isaac Singer
1852 Air Ship - Henri Giffard
1852 Gyroscpoe - Leon Foucault
1852 Passenger Elevator - Elisha Otis
1854 Symbolic Logic - George Boule
1855 Plastic - Alexander Parks
1858 Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Cyrus Field
1858 Continental Drift - Antonio Pellegrini
1859 Evolution - Charles Darwin - Origin of Species
1859 Spectrum Analysis - Gustav Kirchhoff, Robert Bunsen
1860 Abraham Lincoln - President
1861 Civil War
1861 Serfs Emancipated - Russia
1861 Germs Theory - Louis Pasteur
1861 Machine Gun - Richard Gatling
1861 Solar Energy - Parobolic Reflector Caloric Engine - John Ericsson
1865 North wins Civil War
1865 Antiseptics - Joseph Lister
1865 Heredity Theory - Gregor Mendel
1867 Mexico Liberated
1867 Dominion of Canada
1867 Alaska Annexed
1867 Karl Marx - Das Kapital
1867 Dynamite - Alfred Nobel
1867 Fluorescent Lamp - A. Becquerel
1867 Typewriter - Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden
1868 Helium - Joseph Lockyer
1869 14th Ammendment - Civil Rights
1869 Transcontinental Railroad
1869 Periodic Table of Elements - Mendeleev
1869 DNA - Friedrich Meischer
1869 Vacuum Cleaner - W. McGaffey
1870 Incandescent Lamp - Thomas Edison
1873 Light - Electromagnetic Theory - James Maxwell
1876 Telephone - Alexander Bell
1877 Phonograph - Thomas Edison
1878 Commercial Telephone Exchange - New Haven, CT
1879 Popular Electric Light - Thomas Edison
1880 Selsmograph - John Milne
1882 Tuberculosis Bacteria - Robert Koch
1882 Electric Fan - Schuyler Wheeler
1883 Cholera - Robert Koch
1883 Artificial Fibers - Joseph Swann
1884 Fountain Pen - Lewis Waterman
1885 Internal Combustion Engine - Karl Benz
1885 Practical Internal Combustion Engine - Gottlieb Daimler
1885 Motor Cycle - Gottlieb Daimler
1885 Rabes Immunization - Louis Pasteur
1885 Electric Transformer - William Stanley
1886 Spark Coil - Electromagnetic Wave Generator - Heinrich Hertz
1887 Antibiotic - Louis Pasteur
1887 Electrocardiography - Agustus Waller
1887 Phonograph - Thomas Edison
1888 Box Camera - George Eastman
1888 Pneumatic Tire - Dunlop
1891 Aotomobile - Rene Panhard & Emile Lavassor
1991 Zipper - W. Judson
1892 Diesel Engine
1893 Motion Pictures - Thomas Edison
1894 Kinetoscope - Thomas Edison
1895 X-Rays - William Roentgen
1895 Wierless Telegraphy - Guglielmo Marconi
1896 Nobel Prizes
1897 Electron - Joseph Thompson
1898 Spanish-American War
1898 Radium & Polonium - Pierre & Maeie Curie
1899 Tape Recorder (steel) - Valdemar Poulsen