Mary Ellen  JOYCE

Born

abt. 1841 ,  County Cork, Ireland

Died

abt. 1903 ,  Virginia City, Nevada, USA

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Born: abt. 1841 in County Cork, Ireland

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Mary Ellen JOYCE died abt. 1903 in Virginia City, Nevada, USA.

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 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)

 1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

 1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

 1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

 1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

 1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

 1902 - July 17 - Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first modern air-conditioning system. (Buffalo, New York, USA)

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