AntiBellum Inventions



AntiBellum Inventions

• modern safety pin - 1849

• pendulum press for can tops invented - 1849

• paper bag - 1850

• Erie railroad depends on the telegraph - 1851

• Elisha Otis demonstrates passenger elevator - 1852

• self-rising flour invented - 1852

• perfection of sluicing process in mining by E. E. Matteson - 1853

• George Crum invents potato chips - 1853

• Gail Borden patents evaporated milk - 1853

• wood pulp is added by paper makers - 1854

• Singer opens sewing machine plant in New York City - 1853

• Bessemer perfects the steel-making process in England - 1856

• Aniline dye - 1856

• blotting paper replaces sand boxes - 1856

• agricultural twine knotter invented by John F. Appleby - 1858

• mail boxes appear on street corners - 1858

• first steam-driven field tractor - 1858

• successful oil drilling at Titusville, PA by Edwin Drake - 1859

• Martha J. Coston develops a maritime navigation system using pyrotechnics - 1859

• Comstock Lode discovered in Nevada - 1859

• internal combustion engine - 1859

• electric home lighting introduced - 1859

• Amédée Mannheim, an officer of the French artillery, invents what may be considered the first of the modern slide rules - 1859

• spectroscope invented by two German scientists, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen of Bunsen burner fame and Gustav Robert Kirchoff - 1859

• Pullman devises plan for sleeping car - 1859

• James and E.P. Monroe patents cast iron egg beater - 1859

• steamroller - 1859

• lead-acid cell (alkaline battery) invented by French physicist Gaston Planté - 1859

• first wrought-iron I-beams rolled by Peter Cooper at Trenton, NJ - 1860

• Winchester introduces repeating rifle - 1860

• Flexible Flyer snow sled - 1860

• Sholes builds a functional typewriter - 1860

• innerspring invented for use in seat cushions - 1860

• the bitters, campari, is invented by Milan café owner Gaspare Campari - 1860

• American scientist Samuel Pierpont Langley invents the bolometer, an instrument used to measure infrared radiation or any other form of radiant energy - 1860

• transformer invented by Antonio Pacinotti - 1860

• Louis Pasteur invents milk sterilization - 1860

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