Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
CHRONOLOGICAL.


The Dates Of Early Great American In
ventions and Enterprises
Manufacturer and Builder.
1856. The first steam engine built,
after the Newcomer type, for the Schuy-
Ter copper mines
l772. Another similar engine, made
for a factory in Philadelphia.
1855. Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia,
introduced steam power to drive -four
mill and a brick yard.
lIoo. James Rumsey propelled vessel
on the Potomac River by the reaction of
| the water.
1887. Perkins invented nail cutting
machine, which could make 200, 900 nails
per day.
1888. John Fitch navigated the
Delaware river with the first steamboat.
1874. Whitney's cotton gin invented.
1896. Benjamin Thompson, otherwise
Count Rumford, discovered that there
is no such thing as a caloric fluid, but
that heat is peculiar mode of motion of
the material particles of bodies, and
thus laid the foundation of the modern
theory Of the conservation of forces.
1897. Benjamin Thompson invented
q brush making machine.
1897. Amos Whittemore introduced
machine for making the cards used liz
cotton and wooden manufacture.
1898. Robert Mexican patented the
nrst steam saw mill.
1899. Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia,
made the first high pressure steam en-
CINE, and built a steam carriage, which,
however, was not success.
1904. Colonel John Cox Stevens in
vented the screw propeller, the model of
which is still at the Hoboken, On. j.
institute for engineers.
1904. Oliver Evans built a paddle
wheel steamer, to ply on the Delaware
and Schuylkill rivers, driven by a double
acting high pressure engine; also adapt
ed for land conveyance.
1906. Thomas Blanchard, made an
apparatus adapted for rifing gun bar
re]s.
1907. Robert Fulton travelled with
his first steamboat from New York to
Albany.
1907. Oilcloth for foor-carpeting first
made in Philadelphia.
1907. John Bedford invented and
manufactured metal-bound boots and
shoes.
1911. John 81. Hall, of Massachusetts
invented breach-losding muskets.
1872. George Shoemaker sold in Phil
adelphia several truckloads of anthracite
coal for fuel, and was imprisoned as an
impostor for selling stones for coal.
1913. Francis G. Lowell made i'm
portant Improvements in the power
loom.
1917. Geo. Clymer produced the
first American-made printing press.
1878. Jacob Perkins introduced steel
engravings as a substitute for copper.
1919. The Savannah made the first
passage across the Atlantic ocean by
steam-power-dr driving paddle wheels.
1920. Henry Burden, of Troy, n. Y,
invented the cultivation.
1921. The same inventor improved
rolling mills.
1921. Jordan L. Mott invented utili-
cation of small coal for furnaces.
1922. James Mcdonald, Of New York,
invented machinery for cleaning fax
and hemp.
1853. Joseph Saxton invented
wheel cutting engine producing epyci-
cloidal teeth.
1924 Ladoc Pratt established his
celebrated tanneries in the Catskills,
New York state.
1924. Completion of the Erie canal
connecting the large lakes with the
Hudson river.
1927. Harrison A. Dyar esta blished
the first telegraph line on Long Island,
making signals with FRACTIONAL cleo
tricity.
1927. John McClinter, of Pennsyl-
vaDia, invented the slotting and shaping
machine.
1923. First American patent for i'm
p1ovement in locomotives granted,
1928. First locomotive journey made
on the Honesdale and Carbonate rail-
way, Pennsy lvania.
1928. Hay and straw used for the
first time to made paper.
1928. James Bogardus invented the
ring flyer for spinning cotton.
1928. The same invented mills with
eccentric grinding surfaces.
1881. Redfeld published his book on
the theories Of storms.
1882. James Bogardus invented dry
gas meter
1884. Henry Burden, invented his
nail making machines.
1886. James Bogardus invented a
pantograph.
1910. The same invented the molds to
press glass in while blowing.
1741. The same made improvements
in drilling machinery.
Since then inventions and patents
hoy of
astonishing rate.
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