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Okay, so if you were writing about cavemen, it would be easy to figure this out, but we're writing about 1832. What existed --and perhaps, more importantly, what didn't exist-- back then?
The following table should help. It doesn't include everything, but has some interesting things that may surprise you.
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1799 |
Count Alessandro volta invents the
battery
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1802 |
Cuneiform writing is
deciphered
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1804 |
Friedrich Winzer takes out a patent on
gas lighting.
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1805 |
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1806 |
Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort develops the
Beaufort scale still used by sailors and meteorologists today..
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1807 |
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1808 |
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1809 |
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1810 |
The tin can
is invented, changing how food is preserved forever.
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1811 |
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1812 |
The
Mohs' Scale is devised as a way to evaluate minerals.
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Grimms' Fairy Tales
are compiled and published.
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1813 |
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1814 |
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1815 |
The
metronome
is invented.
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1816 |
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1817 |
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1818 |
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1819 |
The stethoscope is invented. |
Electro-magnetism is discovered. This was important to improving how ship compasses work. |
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1820 |
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1821 |
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1822 |
Photography is invented. |
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1823 |
Raincoats (macintoshes) are invented! | ||
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1824 |
Toy balloons are invented! |
Portland cement is invented! |
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1825 |
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1826 |
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1827 |
John Walker invents the strikable match ! |
Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone |
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1828 |
Hans Christian Ørsted figures out how to isolate aluminum so it can be used commercially. |
The world's first scientific zoo, the London Zoo opens. |
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1829 |
William A. Burt invents the typewriter . |
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1830 |
Barthélemy Thimonnier invents the first sewing machine . |
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1831 |
Chloroform and its uses are discovered. |
The magnetic North Pole is discovered. |
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1832 |
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1833 |
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1834 |
The hansom cab is invented. |
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1835 |
The telegraph is invented. |
The wrench is invented by Solymon Merrick of Springfield, Massachusetts. |
The first mechanical calculator is invented by Charles Babbage. |
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1836 |
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1837 |
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1838 |
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1839 |
The bicycle is invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan of Scotland. |
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1840 |
The use of postage stamps begins, causing the sender, not the receiver to pay for the delivery of the mail. |
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1841 |
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1842 |
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1843 |
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1844 |
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1845 |
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1846 |
The Smithsonian Institute is founded. |
The first painless tooth extraction using ether is performed in Boston, MA. | |
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1847 |
Dr. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis invents antiseptics. |
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1848 |
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1849 |
Walter Hunt invents the first safety pin.. |