Nelson RICHARDS

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abt. 1816 ,

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5 May 1880 , Rehoboth, Massachusetts, USA

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Nelson RICHARDS died 5 May 1880 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, USA.
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1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

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Name: Nelson Richards
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Death Date: 05 May 1880
Death Place: Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
Age: 64
Birth Date: 1816
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I03061-2
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
GS Film Number: 1987644
Reference ID: p 26 item 11

'Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:FHBX-2NL : 10 December 2014), Nelson Richards, 05 May 1880; citing Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, reference p 26 item 11; FHL microfilm 1,987,644.'

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