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MODERN TECH & INVENTION

01-01-1801 Jacquard automatic punchhole-reading loom

01-01-1803 steam boat

01-01-1804 steam train

01-01-1814 The Times printed by steam

01-01-1822 Niepce photography

01-01-1822 Babbage designs first difference engine

01-01-1829 first typewriter

01-01-1834 Perkins refrigerator

01-01-1835 Henry relay

01-01-1837 Morse telegraph

01-01-1840 Britain penny post

01-01-1841 Sax saxophone

01-01-1846 The Economist & News of the World

01-01-1859 Plante lead acid battery

01-01-1853 Scheutzes difference engine (printing)

01-01-1860 Edison light bulb

01-01-1865 transatl telegraph

01-01-1868 Broca localization of language

01-01-1870 Britain national education act

01-01-1870 line shaft systems popular

01-01-1876 Gray first synthesizer

01-01-1876 Bell telephone

01-01-1877 Remington typewriter prototype

01-01-1878 Crookes cathode ray tube (crt)

01-01-1886 Kodak hand camera

01-01-1886 Daimler car

01-01-1887 Berliner gramophone

01-01-1887 Cajal stains and draws neurons

01-01-1890 Hollerith tabulating machine used for 1890 Census (later IBM)

01-01-1892 Ives color photography

01-01-1893 Tesla radio

01-01-1893 world expo chicago (.5b in today's $)

01-01-1896 Lumiere cinema show in London

01-01-1899 magnetic recording of sound

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