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Magdalena "Polly" MAULFAIR

Female 1811 - 1896  (85 years)  


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   Date  Event(s)
1812 
  • 1812: War of 1812: United States vs Great Britain 1812-1815.
1813 
  • 1813: Creek War: United States vs Creek Indians 1813-1814.
1814 
  • 1814: George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
  • 1814: Joseph Nic
  • 1814: German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
  • 1814: The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
1815 
  • 1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
1817 
  • 1817: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
1819 
  • 1819: Ren
  • 1819: Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
1820 
  • 1820: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
1823 
  • 1823: Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
1824 
  • 1824: Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
  • 1824: Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
10 1825 
  • 1825: John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
  • 1825: William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
11 1827 
  • 1827: Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
  • 1827: John Walker invents the modern matches.
12 1829 
  • 1829: Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837.
  • 1829: William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
  • 1829: Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing.
  • 1829: American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
13 1830 
  • 1830: Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
  • 1830: William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
14 1831 
  • 1831: American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
15 1832 
  • 1832: Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836.
  • 1832: Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
16 1834 
  • 1834: Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
  • 1834: Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
17 1835 
  • 1835: Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
  • 1835: Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography.
  • 1835: Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
  • 1835: Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
18 1836 
  • 1836: Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
19 1837 
  • 1837: Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
  • 1837: Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
  • 1837: English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
  • 1837: Victoria. Ruler of England 1837-1901. House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort.
20 1838 
  • 1838: Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
21 1839 
  • 1839: Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
  • 1839: Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
  • 1839: American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
  • 1839: Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
  • 1839: American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
22 1840 
  • 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
23 1841 
  • 1841: William H. Harrison president of the USA. William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia 1841.
  • 1841: John Tyler president of the USA 1841-1845. John Tyler the first vice president to succeed to the presidency due to death of a president.
  • 1841: Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
24 1842 
  • 1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
25 1843 
  • 1843: Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
26 1844 
  • 1844: Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
27 1845 
  • 1845: James Polk president of the USA 1845-1849.
  • 1845: American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
  • 1845: Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
28 1846 
  • 1846: Mexican-American War 1846-1848.
  • 1846: Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
29 1847 
  • 1847: Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
30 1849 
  • 1849: Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office.
  • 1849: Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
31 1850 
  • 1850: Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death.
  • 1850: Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent.
32 1851 
  • 1851: Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
33 1853 
  • 1853: Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
34 1854 
  • 1854: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
35 1855 
  • 1855: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
36 1856 
  • 1856: Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
37 1857 
  • 1857: James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
  • 1857: George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
38 1858 
  • 1858: Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
  • 1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
39 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.
40 1862 
  • 1862: Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
  • 1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
41 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.
42 1866 
  • 1866: Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
  • 1866: J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
  • 1866: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
43 1867 
  • 1867: Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
44 1868 
  • 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights.
  • 1868: George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
  • 1868: Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
45 1869 
  • 1869: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
46 1872 
  • 1872: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
  • 1872: J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
47 1873 
  • 1873: Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
48 1874 
  • 1874: American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
49 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.
50 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.
51 1878 
  • 1878: Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
52 1880 
  • 1880: Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • 1880: The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
53 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.
54 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.
55 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.
56 1886 
  • 1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • 1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
57 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.
58 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.
59 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.
60 1891 
  • 1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
61 1892 
  • 1892: Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
  • 1892: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
62 1893 
  • 1893: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
  • 1893: American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
63 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.
64 1896 
  • 1896: American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.

 
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