AntiBellum Inventions

AntiBellum Inventions

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  modern safety pin - 1849
  
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  pendulum press for can tops invented - 1849
  
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  paper bag - 1850
  
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  Erie railroad depends on the telegraph - 1851
  
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  Elisha Otis demonstrates passenger elevator - 1852
  
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  self-rising flour invented - 1852
  
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  perfection of sluicing process in mining by E. E. Matteson - 1853
  
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  George Crum invents potato chips - 1853
  
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  Gail Borden patents evaporated milk - 1853
  
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  wood pulp is added by paper makers - 1854
  
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  Singer opens sewing machine plant in New York City - 1853
  
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  Bessemer perfects the steel-making process in England - 1856
  
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  Aniline dye - 1856
  
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  blotting paper replaces sand boxes - 1856
  
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  agricultural twine knotter invented by John F. Appleby - 1858
  
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  mail boxes appear on street corners - 1858
  
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  first steam-driven field tractor - 1858
  
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  successful oil drilling at Titusville, PA by Edwin Drake - 1859
  
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  Martha J. Coston develops a maritime navigation system using pyrotechnics - 1859
  
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  Comstock Lode discovered in Nevada - 1859
  
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  internal combustion engine - 1859
  
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  electric home lighting introduced - 1859
  
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  Amédée Mannheim, an officer of the French artillery, invents what may be considered the first of the modern slide rules - 1859
  
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  spectroscope invented by two German scientists, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen of Bunsen burner fame and Gustav Robert Kirchoff - 1859
  
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  Pullman devises plan for sleeping car - 1859
  
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  James and E.P. Monroe patents cast iron egg beater - 1859
  
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  steamroller - 1859
  
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  lead-acid cell (alkaline battery) invented by French physicist Gaston Planté - 1859
  
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  first wrought-iron I-beams rolled by Peter Cooper at Trenton, NJ - 1860
  
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  Winchester introduces repeating rifle - 1860
  
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  Flexible Flyer snow sled - 1860
  
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  Sholes builds a functional typewriter - 1860
  
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  innerspring invented for use in seat cushions - 1860
  
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  the bitters, campari, is invented by Milan café owner Gaspare Campari - 1860
  
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  American scientist Samuel Pierpont Langley invents the bolometer, an instrument used to measure infrared radiation or any other form of radiant energy - 1860
  
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  transformer invented by Antonio Pacinotti - 1860
  
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  Louis Pasteur invents milk sterilization - 1860