Oliver Wendell
HOLMES
(b.
29 August 1809
,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
d.
7 October 1894
,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
)
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Oliver Wendell HOLMES was born 29 August 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Oliver Wendell HOLMES was the child of ? and ?Oliver Wendell HOLMES died 7 October 1894 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA .
Occupation: American physician, poet, and polymath
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29 August 1809
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA



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

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)


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


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

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)
First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

7 October 1894
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
He died at the age of 85.


Former Home of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1906
Read more about Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA (Coltsville)
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