WORLD OF OUR ANCESTORS

1850-1950

This was a period of enormous social and Economic upheaval.  A period in which the country went from an agricultural based society to an industrial society. It was a time of rapid economic growth and inventions.

It was also a time of Civil war, Indian war and worker exploitation, racism  and the women's rights movement.

It was also a time of strong leaders with creative ideas that built the economic structure of the country.

It was also a time of civility when you knew your neighbors and family was strong.  If you would like to contribute your thoughts and research on the historical periods listed below we would like your imput.

[1850-1870] -- [1871-1900] -- [1901-1930] -- [1931-1950]

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The Exodus Scheme in the South

Brooklyn Eagle Apr.17,1878

The impulsive Negro is ever on the lookout for excitement, and just now, from some one cause or the other.  Their excitement now is in the direction of emigration.

Freedom meant so much for them and was so thoroughly enjoyed for a time as long as troops were in the south but now the present outlook discourages them.

They are impatient for change and it is found in the propsed exodus to Liberia.

Dec 2 1902

 

THOUSANDS OF MEN ON STRIKE

 

Coal Miners quitting work in scores of localities

Brooklyn Eagle Apr. 21,1894

 

INVENTIONS 1850-1900

1851	Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
1852	Jean Bernard Léon Foucault invents a gyroscope. Henri Giffard builds an airship powered by the first aircraft engine - unsuccessful design.
1853	George Cayley invents a manned glider.
1854	John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
1855	Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor. Georges Audemars invents rayon.
1856	Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
1857	George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
1858	Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine. Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
1861	Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator. Pierre Michaux invents a bicycle. Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
1862	Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun. Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
1866	Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener. Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
1867	Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
1868	George Westinghouse invents air brakes. Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel. J P Knight invents traffic lights.
1872	J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill. A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
1873	Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
1874	American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
1876	Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone. Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine. Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
1877	Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph. Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
1878	Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
1880	The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper. Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
1881	Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector. David Houston patents the roll film for cameras. Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
1884	George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film. Frenchmen, H. de Chardonnet invents rayon. Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen. James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register. Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
1885	Harim Maxim invents the machine gun. Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.  Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
1886	Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher. Gottlieb Daimler builds the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle. John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
1887	German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar. Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire. Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.  F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
1888	Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws. John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire. Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
1889	Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook. Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
1891	Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
1892	Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine. Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
1893	American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper. Edward Goodrich Acheson invents carborundum.
1895	Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe.  Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
1896	American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
1898	Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster. Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine.
1899	I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame. J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.

 

FIGHT FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS

 

 

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