technology timeline NC 11800 to 11899
NC 11800
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---- Alessandro Volta in Italy invents first form of chemical electric battery.
sewing machine invented. Nicolas Appert in France develops canning as means of preserving food.
NC 11820
---- ---- Stockton-Darlington public railway begins service in United Kingdom.
Joseph Niepce in France produces earliest form of photograph.
George Stephenson in United Kingdom develops first steam-powered locomotive.
NC 11830
---- ---- Samuel Morse in United States patents telegraph.
Wheatstone-Cooke system of telegraph in transmits messages between railway stations in West Drayton and Paddington, a distance of 29 km. Charles Goodyear in United States discovers process of vulcanizing rubber.
NC 11840
---- ---- Physician Crawford Long in United States performs first recorded use of general anesthesia during surgery.
Samuel Morse sends a telegraph message from Washington DC to Baltimore, a distance of 60 km.
Elias Howe in United States patents lock-stitch sewing machine.
United States Post Office introduces postage stamps.
NC 11850
---- ---- Isaac Singer patents a continuous-stitch sewing machine.
Elisha Otis in United States installs first modern elevator. Royal Observatory in Greenwich uses telegraph transmissions to standardize time for other locations.
Henry Bessemer in United Kingdom develops inexpensive process for making steel.
Edwin Drake in United States drills first oil well in Pennsylvania.
NC 11860
---- ---- Richard Gatling invents first form of machine gun.
first practical typewriter developed and later brought to market in NC 11874.
NC 11870
---- ---- typewriter keyboard is developed. Eadweard Muybridge in United States invents zoopraxiscope, forerunner of movie projector. Robert Chesebrough in United States patents Vaseline petroleum jelly.
Andrew Hallidie invents cable cars in San Francisco.
modern barbed wire invented.
George Green in United States patents electric dental drill.
Alexander Graham Bell in United States invents telephone. Karl von Linde in Germany invents first practical refrigerator.
Nikolaus Otto invents type of internal combustion engine still used. Thomas Edison invents wax-cylinder phonograph. a 487 mm Large Refractor telescope is built at Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory.
rayon developed.
first practical electric lights developed in United States. sugar substitute saccharine is formulated at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
NC 11880
---- ---- George Eastman in United States patents a dry-plate photographic process.
Frederic Ives produces first color photograph.
a rotating electromagnetic field, a precursor of devices using alternating current, discovered by Nikola Tesla in United States.
four standard time zones adopted by United States and Canadian Railroads. construction is completed on the 486 m Brooklyn Bridge in New York, the world's longest suspension bridge at the time.
prime meridian at Royal Observatory, Greenwich, adopted by international conference in Washington D.C., providing for the use of 24 standard time zones. Ottmar Mergenthaler in United States patents the Linotype typesetting machine. New York and Boston are linked by telephone.
Karl Benz in Germany builds precursor to modern automobile. modern-like bicycle built in United Kingdom. Home Insurance Building, first skyscraper-type building built in Chicago. William Stanley in United States invents electric transformer. Charles Tainter invents Dictaphone for recording dictation.
George Westinghouse in United States invents airbrake for railroad cars.
first electric trolley line is constructed in Richmond, Virginia.
Emile Berliner in Germany invents phonograph disc. John Dunlop in United Kingdom patents air-filled tire. George Eastman in United States develops Kodak box camera, the first camera using roll film. John Loud in United States invents ballpoint pen.
Gustave Eiffel in France builds tallest freestanding tower. first electric elevator is installed in New York City. Thomas Edison invents kinetograph, first sound camera.
NC 11890
---- ---- Nikola Tesla invents Tesla coil, which produces a high-frequency high voltage current that is later used in radios and televisions. escalator is devised by Jesse Reno. William Morrison in Iowa builds an electric car.
long-distance telephone connections from Boston to Chicago. Rudolf Diesel in Germany describes diesel engine.
first public showing of motion picture in Paris, France. Guglielmo Marconi in Italy transmits wireless telegraph signal.
Karl Braun in Germany invents cathode-ray tube oscilloscope.
Valdemar Poulsen invents magnetic wire recorder, precursor of modern tape recorder.
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| UCN | 12011 P09 Violet | ||
| zone(UT) | t408 tt900 | ||
| 'ICAS in use' can accommodate calendar and clock formatting 'for all people, for all time'. | |||
| AD common year day | 039 | ||
| G | 2011 February 08 Tuesday | ||
| UT | 09:48:49 | ||
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