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Inventions During Presidential Terms I have put in bold the inventions that I think are the most important. Things highlighted yellow (if you are familiar with last year’s invention list, you may not want to read this explanation) are those inventions which, since I do not know the month that they were invented, could conceivably be in the president previous, because presidents went into office in March back then. However, the chance is very slim, so if you want, you can ignore the yellow. George Washington #1: 1791: Artificial teeth: Nicholas Dubois De Chemant 1793: Cotton gin: Eli Whitney John Adams #2: 1798: Vaccination: Edward Jenner 1798: Lithography: Alois Senefelder Thomas Jefferson #3: 1801 : Jacquard loom : Joseph Marie Jacquard 1802: Screw propeller steamboat Phoenix: John Stevens 1802: Gas stove: Zachäus Andreas Winzler 1804: Locomotive: Richard Trevithick 1805: Submarine Nautilus: Robert Fulton 1807: Steamboat Clermont: Robert Fulton 1808: Band saw: William Newberry James Madison #4: 1809 : Arc lamp : Humphry Davy 1814: Steam Locomotive (Blücher): George Stephenson 1816: Miner's safety lamp: Humphry Davy 1816: Stirling engine: Robert Stirling 1816: Stethoscope: Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec 1816: The Bicycle James Monroe #5: 1817 : Draisine or velocipede (two-wheeled): Karl Drais 1817: Kaleidoscope : David Brewster 1821: Electric motor: Michael Faraday 1823: Electromagnet: William Sturgeon 1824: Portland cement: William Aspdin John Quincy Adams #6: 1826: Photography: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce 1826: Internal combustion engine: Samuel Morey 1827: Friction match: John Walker Andrew Jackson #7:

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Inventions During Presidential TermsI have put in bold the inventions that I think are the most important. Things highlighted yellow (if you are familiar with last year’s invention list, you may not want to read this explanation) are those inventions which, since I do not know the month that they were invented, could conceivably be in the president previous, because presidents went into office in March back then. However, the chance is very slim, so if you want, you can ignore the yellow.George Washington #1: 1791: Artificial teeth: Nicholas Dubois De Chemant 1793: Cotton gin: Eli Whitney John Adams #2: 1798: Vaccination: Edward Jenner 1798: Lithography: Alois Senefelder Thomas Jefferson #3: 1801: Jacquard loom: Joseph Marie Jacquard 1802: Screw propeller steamboat Phoenix: John Stevens 1802: Gas stove: Zachäus Andreas Winzler 1804: Locomotive: Richard Trevithick 1805: Submarine Nautilus: Robert Fulton 1807: Steamboat Clermont: Robert Fulton 1808: Band saw: William Newberry James Madison #4: 1809: Arc lamp: Humphry Davy 1814: Steam Locomotive (Blücher): George Stephenson 1816: Miner's safety lamp: Humphry Davy 1816: Stirling engine: Robert Stirling 1816: Stethoscope: Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec 1816: The Bicycle James Monroe #5: 1817: Draisine or velocipede (two-wheeled): Karl Drais 1817: Kaleidoscope: David Brewster 1821: Electric motor: Michael Faraday 1823: Electromagnet: William Sturgeon 1824: Portland cement: William Aspdin John Quincy Adams #6: 1826: Photography: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce 1826: Internal combustion engine: Samuel Morey 1827: Friction match: John Walker Andrew Jackson #7: 1830: Lawn mower: Edwin Beard Budding 1830: Stenotype on punched paper strip: Karl Drais 1831: Multiple coil magnet: Joseph Henry 1831: Magnetic acoustic telegraph: Joseph Henry (patented 1837) 1831: Reaper: Cyrus McCormick 1831: Electrical generator: Michael Faraday, Ányos Jedlik 1834: The Hansom cab is patented 1834: Louis Braille perfects his Braille system 1834: Refrigerator: Jacob Perkins

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1834: Combine harvester: Hiram Moore 1835: Revolver: Samuel Colt 1835: Electromechanical Relay: Joseph Henry 1835: Incandescent light bulb: James Bowman Lindsay 1836: Sewing machine: Josef Madersberger Martin Van Buren #8: 1837: US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport (February 25) 1837: Steel plow: John Deere 1837: Standard diving dress: Augustus Siebe 1837: Camera Zoom Lens: Jozef Maximilián Petzval 1837: Magnetic telegraph: Samuel Morse 1838: Electric telegraph: Charles Wheatstone (also Samuel Morse) 1838: closed diving suit with a helmet: Augustus Siebe 1839: Vulcanization of rubber: Charles Goodyear 1840: Artificial fertilizer: Justus von Liebig John Tyler #10: 1842 Superphosphate fertilizer: John Bennett Lawes 1842: Anaesthesia: Crawford Long 1843: Typewriter: Charles Thurber 1843: Fax machine (kind of like a telegraph back then): Alexander Bain 1843: Ice cream maker: Nancy Johnson James K. Polk #11: 1845: Pneumatic tire: Robert Thomson (inventor) 1846: Sewing machine (different model): Elias Howe 1846: Rotary printing press: Richard M. Hoe Millard Fillmore #13: 1849: Safety pin: Walter Hunt 1849: Francis turbine: James B. Francis 1849: Telephone: Antonio Meucci 1852: Airship: Henri Giffard 1852: Passenger elevator: Elisha Otis 1852: Gyroscope: Léon Foucault Franklin Pierce #14: 1855: Bunsen burner: Robert Bunsen 1855: Bessemer process: Henry Bessemer 1856: Celluloid: Alexander Parkes James Buchanan #15: 1858: Undersea telegraph cable: Fredrick Newton Gisborne 1858: Mason jar: John L. Mason 1859: Oil drill: Edwin L. Drake 1859: Lead acid battery: Gaston Plante 1860: Linoleum: Fredrick Walton 1860: Repeating rifle: Oliver F. Winchester, Christopher Spencer 1860: Self-propelled torpedo: Giovanni Luppis Abraham Lincoln #16: 1861: Ironclad USS Monitor: John Ericsson

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1861: Siemens regenerative furnace: Carl Wilhelm Siemens 1862: Revolving machine gun: Richard J. Gatling 1862: Mechanical submarine: Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol 1862: Pasteurization: Louis Pasteur, Claude Bernard 1863: Player piano: Henri Fourneaux Andrew Johnson #17: 1865: Roller Coaster: LaMarcus Adna Thompson 1865: Barbed wire: Louis Jannin 1866: Dynamite: Alfred Nobel 1868: Practical typewriter: Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W.

Soule, with assistance from James Densmore 1868: Air brake (rail): George Westinghouse 1868: Oleomargarine: Mege Mouries Ulysses S. Grant #18: 1869: Vacuum cleaner: I.W. McGaffers 1870: Magic Lantern projector: Henry R. Heyl 1870: Stock ticker: Thomas Alva Edison 1871: Cable car (railway): Andrew S. Hallidie 1872: Adding machine: Edmund D. Barbour 1873: Railway knuckle coupler: Eli H. Janney 1873: Modern direct current electric motor: Zénobe Gramme 1874: Electric street car: Stephen Dudle Field 1875: Dynamo: William A. Anthony 1875: Magazine (firearm): Benjamin B. Hotchkiss 1876: Carpet sweeper: Melville Bissell 1876: Gasoline carburettor: Daimler 1876: Loudspeaker: Alexander Graham Bell Rutherford B. Hayes #19: 1877: Stapler: Henry R. Heyl 1877: Induction motor: Nikola Tesla 1877: Phonograph: Thomas Alva Edison 1877: Microphone: Emile Berliner 1878: Cathode ray tube: William Crookes 1878: Rebreather: Henry Fleuss 1879: Pelton turbine: Lester Pelton 1879: Cash register: James Ritty 1880: Photophone: Alexander Graham Bell 1880: Roll film: George Eastman 1880: Safety razor: Kampfe Brothers 1880: Seismograph: John Milne Chester A. Arthur #21: 1881: Metal detector: Alexander Graham Bell 1882: Electric fan: Schuyler Skaats Wheeler 1883: two-phase (alternating current) induction motor: Nikola Tesla 1884: Linotype machine: Ottmar Mergenthaler 1884: Fountain pen: Lewis Waterman

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1884: Punched card accounting: Herman Hollerith 1884: Trolley car, (electric): Frank Sprague, Charles Van Depoele Grover Cleveland #22: 1885: Automobile patent granted (internal combustion engine powered):

Karl Benz, first automobile put into production 1885: Maxim gun: Hiram Stevens Maxim 1885: Motorcycle: Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach 1885: Alternating current transformer: William Stanley 1885: Safety bicycle: John Kemp Starley 1886: Dishwasher: Josephine Cochrane 1886: Gasoline engine: Gottlieb Daimler 1886: Improved phonograph cylinder: Tainter & Bell 1887: Monotype machine: Tolbert Lanston 1887: Contact lens: Adolf E. Fick, Eugène Kalt and August Muller 1887: Gramophone record: Emile Berliner 1887: Ceiling fan: Philip Diehl 1888: Polyphase AC Electric power system: Nikola Tesla (30 related patents.) 1888: Kodak hand camera: George Eastman 1888: Ballpoint pen: John Loud 1888: Harvester-thresher: Matteson (?) 1888: Kinematograph: Augustin Le Prince Benjamin Harrison #23: 1891: escalator: Jesse W. Reno 1891: Thermal cracking process: Vladimir Shukhov 1891: Zipper: Whitcomb L. Judson 1891: Carborundum: Edward G. Acheson 1892: Color photography: Frederic E. Ives 1892: Automatic telephone exchange (electromechanical): Almon Strowger - First

in commercial service. Grover Cleveland #24: 1893: Carburetor: Donát Bánki and János Csonka 1893: Wireless communication: Nikola Tesla 1893: Radio: Nikola Tesla 1894: Radio transmission: Jagdish Chandra Bose in Bengal 1895: Diesel engine: Rudolf Diesel 1895: Radiotelegraph: Guglielmo Marconi 1896: Vitascope: Thomas Armat 1897: Modern escalator: Jesse W. Reno