1865-1874 1865 End of American Civil War; 1866 First Chisholm Trail cattle drive (Texas to Abilene, Kansas); Tin can with key opener patented; 1867 Sale of frankfurters in a roll or bun (Coney Island, New York); Barbed wire patented; 1868 Commercial yeast developed; Dining car invented; Refrigerated railcar patented; 1869 Transcontinental railroad completed (Promontory Point, Utah); 1870 Rotary egg beater invented; 1871 Iced tea served (Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York); Great Chicago fire (relief supplies sent by railroad); 1872 Flat-bottomed paper bag patented; First national park established (Yellowstone); 1873 Thermos bottle invented; 1874 Margarine introduced. 1875-1879 1875 Apples grown in American northwest (Yakima Valley, Washington); Combines first used to harvest wheat; 1876 Fred Harvey restaurant opens (Santa Fe railroad depot, Topeka, Kansas); Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia; Telephone invented (Alexander Graham Bell); 1877 Chief Joseph?s war with United States; Phonograph invented (Thomas A. Edison); 1878 Roasted coffee packed in sealed cans; Bottle stopper patented; 1879 Milk bottle developed (Brooklyn, New York); First public electric street lighting (Cleveland, Ohio). 1880-1884 1880 Peak of Chisholm Trail cattle drives; Incandescent lamp (light bulb) invented (Thomas Alva Edison); 1881 Anthrax vaccine developed (Louis Pasteur); American Red Cross founded; 1882 Electric streetlights installed (New York); Electric iron invented (Henry Seely); Electric fan invented (Schuyler Skaats Wheeler); 1883 Standard time adopted; 1884 Telephone service inaugurated between New York and Chicago; Steel girders first used in building construction. |
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1885-1889 1885 Cattle drives decline; 1886 Aluminum processing developed; Statue of Liberty dedicated (Bedloe?s Island, New York); 1887 Land grant universities established (Hatch Act); 1888 Fred Harvey dining cars introduced on westbound Santa Fe trains; Secret ballot first used in America; First electric automobile demonstrated (Boston, Massachusetts); 1889 Movie film developed (Thomas Alva Edison and George Eastman); Johnstown flood (2295 drowned); Montana admitted into the Union (41st state). 1890-1899 1890 Peanut butter invented; Aluminum cooking ware introduced; 1891 Wireless telegraph (telephone) patented (Thomas A Edison); Motion picture camera patented (Thomas A. Edison); Vacuum lamp patented (Thomas A. Edison); 1892 Ellis Island (New York) opened to receive immigrants; 1893 Zipper invented (Whitcomb L. Judson); World Columbian Exposition (Chicago, Illinois); First successful gasoline engine (Henry Ford); 1894 Labor Day declared legal holiday; 1895 First automobile race; 1896 First x-ray treatment for breast cancer; Ford automobile developed; Klondike gold strike; Olympic games revived (Athens); 1897 John Philips Sousa (Stars and Stripes Forever); 1898 Spanish-American War begins and ends; 1899 Popularity of ragtime (Scott Joplin). 1900-1910 1900 Colorado River used to irrigate Imperial Valley, California; 1901 Spindletop oil strike (Beaumont, Texas); Instant coffee invented; Yellow fever associated with mosquito; 1902 Panama Canal financed; 1903 First powered airplane flight (Orville and Wilbur Wright); First transcontinental automobile trip (51 days); 1904 World?s Fair (St. Louis, Missouri). 1905 The Jungle published by Upton Sinclair; 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire; Valencia oranges grown for first time in California; Pure Food and Drug Act passed by Congress; First trans-Atlantic radio transmission; 1908 First cafeteria opened (Los Angeles, California); Cellophane invented; Electric toaster introduced; 1909 Model T Ford introduced; NAACP founded; 1910 Return of Haley's Comet. |
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