Nineteenth Century Inventions 1800 - 1850

1800	Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom. Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery
1804	Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting. Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive. Unfortunately, the machine was too heavy and broke the very rails it was traveling on.
1809	Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
1810	German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press. Peter Durand invents the tin can.
1814	George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive. The first plastic surgery is performed in England. German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.  Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph. He took the picture by setting up a machine called the camera obscura in the window of his home in France. It took eight hours for the camera to take the picture.
1815	Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
1819	Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain". René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
1823	Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
1824	Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon. Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
1825	William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
1827	John Walker invents the modern matches. Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
1829	American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter. Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing. William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
1830	Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
1831	American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper. Michael Faraday invents a electric dynamo.
1832	Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
1834	Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent. Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
1835	Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography. Solymon Merrick patents the wrench. Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.  Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
1836	Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson co-invent the propellor. Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
1837	Samuel Morse invents the telegraph. English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
1838	Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
I839	American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales. American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization. Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography. Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle. Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
1840	Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
1841	Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
1842	Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
1843	Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
1844	Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
1845	American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine. Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
1846	Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
1847	Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
1848	Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair.
1849	Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
1850	Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent in 1850. The machine was made of wood and required you to hand-turn a wheel that caused water to splash on the dishes. Houghton's machine barely worked. The first practical dishwasher was invented by a woman named Josephine Cochran in 1886. Dishwashers, however, did not begin appearing in homes until the 1950s.

19th Century Inventions 1851 - 1899