Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. People also ask

  2. Completion of palm houses at Kew Gardens, London, and the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, by Richard Turner of Dublin. Joseph-Louis Lambot constructs the first ferrocement boat, in France. Linus Yale Sr., invents the modern pin tumbler lock.

  3. 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.

  4. Jul 26, 2019 · 1845—Robert William Thomson patents pneumatic tires made of vulcanized rubber. 1845—Massachusetts dentist Dr. William Morton is the first to use anesthesia for a tooth extraction. 1847—Hungarian Ignaz Semmelweis invents antiseptics. 1848—Waldo Hanchett patents the dentist's chair. 1849—Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.

    • Mary Bellis
  5. The earliest pin-tumble locks were made over 4,000 years ago by the Egyptians. But due to their large, cumbersome size and since they were made of wood, the locks were not practical to use. In 1848, Linus Yale, Sr. invented the modern pin-tumbler lock.

  6. Apr 20, 2010 · In 1848, a French army officer named Claude Minié invented a cone-shaped lead bullet with a diameter smaller than that of the rifle barrel. Soldiers could load these “Minié balls”...

  7. From Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod to the Hubble Space Telescope, this timeline covers some of America's technological innovations and inventions.

  8. Mar 9, 2021 · Keystone/Getty Images. The Second Industrial Revolution, which lasted from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, saw a surge of new technology and inventions that led to dramatic changes in the...

  1. People also search for