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1. 1860-1869Year Inventions Famous People MajorEvents

1860 Jane Addams

1861 bicycle Civil Warbegins

1862 machine gun

1863 Henry Ford

1864

1865

1866 Dynamite

Torpedo

1867 typewriter WilburWrightMarie Curie

1868 traffic lights

1869 Mahatma Gandhi First U.S.

transcontinental

railroute

completed


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1870

1871 Orville Wright

1872

1873 barbed wire

1874 SirWinston

Churchill

1875

1876 Telephone

Carpet sweeper

18771878

1879 Albert Einstein


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1880 toiletpaper

seismograph

Helen Keller

1881 Metal detector

1882 Franklin

D. Roosevelt

1883

1884 cash register EleanorRoosevelt

1885 machine gun

1886 dishwasher

Coca cola

1887 contactlenses

1888 Drinking straws

1889 Adolf Hitler


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1890 Colonel Harland

Sanders1891 Escalator

Swiss army knife

1892 automobile

1893 zipper

1894

1895 X-ray Babe Ruth

1896

1897 AspirinJello

Amelia Earhart

1898 Rollercoaster M. C. Escher Spanish-

American War

1899 Motor-driven

vacuum cleaner

Duke Ellington


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1900 zeppelin Hurricane

(Galveston, TX)1901 Assembly line

Radio

Louis Armstrong

Walt Disney

1902 Airconditioner Charles Lindbergh

1903 Crayons

Windshield

wipers

Lou Gehrig firstpowered,

controlled,

heavier-than-air

plane

1904 Teabags J. Robert

OppenheimerTheodorSeuss

Geisel

1905 E=mc

Popsicle

1906 Cornflakes Earthquake

(San Francisco)

1907 Papertowels John Wayne

1908 Geigercounter

1909 Instant coffee


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1910 MotherTeresa

1911 Ronald ReaganLucille Ball

1912 Life savers Julia Child Titanic

1913 Crossword puzzle Rosa Parks

1914 World WarI

begins

1915 Pyrex FrankSinatra Lusitania

1916 Lincolnlogs Beverly Cleary

Roald Dahl

1917 John F. Kennedy

1918 Fortune cookies Nelson Mandela Influenza

epidemic

1919 Toaster


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1920 Band-aid 19th

Amendment1921

1922 Blender Charles Schulz

1923 Frozen food

1924 Spiralnotebooks

Winnie the Pooh

1925 Margaret

Thatcher

1926 Marilyn Monroe

1927 PEZ candy

Television

first successful

solononstop

flight from New

Yorkto Paris

1928 Bubble gum

Penicillin

Maya Angelou

1929 Carradio

Yo-yo

Sunglasses

Anne Frank

Martin Luther

King, Jr.

DickClark

Great

Depression


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1930 Frozen food

Jet engine

Sandra

Day O'Connor1931 Electron

microscope

Mikhail

Gorbachev

1932 Parking meter

1933 FM radio

1934 Monopoly

1935 Elvis Presley

1936

1937 photocopier Saddam HusseinColin L. Powell

Hindenburg

1938 Ballpointpen

1939 Helicopter World WarII

begins


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1940 jeep Wilma Rudolph

1941 Aerosol spraycans

Pearl Harbor

1942 Ducttape Muhammad Ali

1943 Slinky ArthurAshe

Joe Namath

1944 D-Day

1945 Atomic bomb Diane Sawyer

1946 Microwave William J. Clinton

1947 Kitty litter1948 Frisbee Christa McAuliffe

1949 Cake mix


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10.1950-1959Year Inventions Famous People MajorEvents

1950 Credit card Korean War

1951 Superglue Dale Earnhardt

1952 Mr. Potato Head Christopher

Reeve

George Strait

1953 Blackbox (flight

recorder)

1954 McDonalds Vietnam War

1955 Bill Gates

Steve Jobs

1956 Liquid paperPlay-Doh

Remote control

Hovercraft

Randy JacksonJoe Montana

Martina

Navratilova

1957 Donny Osmond SputnikI

1958 Hula hoop

Laser

The Great

Chicago Fire

1959 Barbie doll


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1960

1961 Princess Diana Bay of Pigs

1962 Cassette

Spacewar(first

computervideo

game)

Jerry Rice

1963 Michael Jordan

1964 Acrylic paint Russell Crowe

1965 Astroturf

Kevlar

Soft contact

lenses

J.K. Rowling

1966 Hand-held

calculator

Christy Linder

Shelley Rose

1967

1968 Computermouse Mary Lou Retton

Cheryl Killebrew

1969 ATM

Barcode scanner

Brett Favre man's first walk

on moon


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1970

1971 Karaoke machineVCR

Kristie VertreesLance Armstrong

1972 Hacky sack

Pong

Shaquille O'Neal

Brad Paisley

Watergate

1973 Internet Monica Seles

1974 Postitnotes Leonardo

DiCaprio

1975 Push through tab

on a drinkcan

David Beckham

Jimmie Johnson

1976 Inkjetprinter ReeseWitherspoon

1977 Tom Brady

1978 Artificial heart Panama Canal

1979 Trivialpursuit

Cellphones

Walkman

Rollerblades

Three Mile

Island


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1980 Yao Ming Mount Saint

Helens1981 IBM-PC

1982 Apolo Anton

Ohno

Ashley Bowles

1983 Cabbage Patch

Kids

Carrie

Underwood

1984 Apple Macintosh Lindsey Vonn

1985 Windows

(computer)

Michael Phelps

1986 Disposable

camera

Challenger

explosion

1987 Disposable

contactlenses

1988 Dopplerradar

1989 High definition

television

Berlin Wall

falls

Exxon Valdez

oil spill


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1990 World Wide Web Emma Watson

1991 Persian GulfWar

1992 Miley Cyrus

NickJonas

TaylorLautner

1993 Beanie babies

1994 Dakota Fanning

Justin Bieber

1995 Leap frog

DVD1996 Web TV

1997

1998 Google

1999 Spongebob

Squarepants


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2000

2001 I-podSegway HT

Roomba

2002

2003

2004 Adidas 1

(thinking shoes)

2005 You Tu be urricane

Katrina

2006 Hannah Montana

2007 iPhone

2008

2009


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