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Andrew Lincoln WILLIAMS

Male 1861 - 1935  (74 years)  


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   Date  Event(s)
1861 
  • 1861: USA Civil War begins.
  • 1861: Abraham Lincoln president of the USA 1861-1865.
  • 1861: Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
  • 1861: Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
1862 
  • 1862: Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
  • 1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
1865 
  • 1865: USA Civil War ends.
  • 1865: Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 Apr 1865 and dies the next day.
  • 1865: Andrew Johnson president of the USA 1865-1869. Andrew Johnson, vice president under Abraham Lincoln, sworn in as president upon Lincoln's death.
1866 
  • 1866: Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
  • 1866: J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
  • 1866: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
1867 
  • 1867: Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
1868 
  • 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
  • 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
  • 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
1869 
  • 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
1872 
  • 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
  • 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
1873 
  • 1873: Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
10 1874 
  • 1874: American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
11 1876 
  • 1876: Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
  • 1876: Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
12 1877 
  • 1877: Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
  • 1877: Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
  • 1877: Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
13 1878 
  • 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
14 1880 
  • 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
15 1881 
  • 1881: James Garfield president of the USA 1881. James Garfield wounded by assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies 19 Sep 1881.
  • 1881: Chester A. Arthur president of the USA 1881-1885. Chester A. Arthur, vice president under James Garfield, sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield.
  • 1881: David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
  • 1881: Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
  • 1881: Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
16 1884 
  • 1884: James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
  • 1884: Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
  • 1884: Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
  • 1884: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
17 1885 
  • 1885: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
  • 1885: Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
  • 1885: Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
  • 1885: Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
18 1886 
  • 1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • 1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
19 1887 
  • 1887: German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
  • 1887: Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
  • 1887: F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
20 1888 
  • 1888: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
  • 1888: Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
  • 1888: Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
21 1889 
  • 1889: Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
  • 1889: Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
  • 1889: Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
22 1891 
  • 1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
23 1892 
  • 1892: Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
  • 1892: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
24 1893 
  • 1893: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
  • 1893: American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
25 1895 
  • 1895: Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
26 1896 
  • 1896: American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
27 1897 
  • 1897: William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
28 1898 
  • 1898: Spanish-American War: United States vs Spain 1898.
  • 1898: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
29 1899 
  • 1899: J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
  • 1899: I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
30 1900 
  • 1900: The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
  • 1900: Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
31 1901 
  • 1901: Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley.
  • 1901: King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
  • 1901: The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
  • 1901: Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.
  • 1901: Edward VII. Ruler of England 1901-1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.
32 1902 
  • 1902: Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
  • 1902: French physicist George Claude invents neon light.
  • 1902: The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
  • 1902: The birth of the Teddy Bear.
33 1903 
  • 1903: Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
  • 1903: Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
  • 1903: The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
  • 1903: Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
  • 1903: William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
34 1904 
  • 1904: Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
  • 1904: Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
35 1905 
  • 1905: Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
36 1906 
  • 1906: William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
37 1907 
  • 1907: Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
  • 1907: The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.
38 1908 
  • 1908: The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
  • 1908: Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
  • 1908: Model T automobile first sold.
  • 1908: J W Geiger and W M
  • 1908: Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates.
39 1909 
  • 1909: William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
  • 1909: Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
40 1910 
  • 1910: Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
  • 1910: Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris.
  • 1910: George V. Ruler of England 1910-1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck. Accession, Jan 20, abdication, Dec 10.
41 1911 
  • 1911: Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
42 1912 
  • 1912: Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
  • 1912: The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
  • 1912: Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912.
43 1913 
  • 1913: Woodrow Wilson president of the USA 1913-1921.
  • 1913: The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
  • 1913: The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now known as, ecstasy.
  • 1913: Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
  • 1913: Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper.
44 1914 
  • 1914: World War I begins. Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
  • 1914: Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
45 1915 
  • 1915: Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
46 1916 
  • 1916: Radio tuners invented that received different stations.
  • 1916: Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
47 1918 
  • 1918: World War I ends.
  • 1918: Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
48 1919 
  • 1919: The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
  • 1919: Short-wave radio invented.
  • 1919: The arc welder invented.
49 1920 
  • 1920: The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
  • 1920: The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
50 1921 
  • 1921: Warren Harding president of the USA 1921. Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921.
  • 1921: Calvin Coolidge president of the USA 1921-1929. Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies.
  • 1921: Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
  • 1921: John Larson, a University of California medical student, invented the modern lie detector (polygraph), used by police since 1924.
51 1922 
  • 1922: Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
  • 1922: The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
52 1923 
  • 1923: Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
  • 1923: The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
  • 1923: John Harwood invented the self-winding watch.
  • 1923: Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
53 1924 
  • 1924: The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
  • 1924: Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
54 1925 
  • 1925: The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
55 1926 
  • 1926: Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
56 1927 
  • 1927: JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
  • 1927: Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
  • 1927: Technicolor invented.
  • 1927: Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
  • 1927: Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
  • 1927: Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
57 1928 
  • 1928: Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
  • 1928: Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
  • 1928: Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
58 1929 
  • 1929: Herbert Hoover president of the USA 1929-1933.
  • 1929: American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
  • 1929: Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
59 1930 
  • 1930: Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer Richard G. Drew.
  • 1930: The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
  • 1930: Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.
60 1931 
  • 1931: Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
  • 1931: Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
61 1932 
  • 1932: Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
62 1933 
  • 1933: Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
  • 1933: Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
  • 1933: Stereo records invented.
63 1934 
  • 1934: Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
  • 1934: Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
64 1935 
  • 1935: Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
  • 1935: The first canned beer made.

 
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