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Invention and Innovation

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The Age of Industry

Invention and Innovation during the Industrial Age

In the first decade of the US Patent Office (1790-1800) 276 new inventions were patented, From 1890 to 1900 235, 000 new devices were patented. At the time of his death Thomas Edison held 1,328 patents

YEAR	INVENTION	INVENTOR
1860	Repeating rifle	Spencer
1861	Monitor, warship	Ericsson
1861	Machine Gun	Gatling
1868	Air Brake	Westinghouse
1868	Refrigerator Car	Davis
1868	Typewriter	Sholes and Glidden
1874	Barbed wire	Glidden
1875	Magazine Gun	Hotchkiss
1876	Telephone	Bell
1876	Carpet Sweeper	Bissell
1878	Disc cultivator	Mallon
1879	Incandescent lamp	Edison
1879	Cash register	Ritty
1882	Electric fan	Wheeler
1882	Electric flatiron	Seeley
1884	Electric Trolley Car	Van Depoel
1884	Punch card accounting	Hollerith
1885	Adding machine	Burroughs
1885	Linotype	Mergenthaler
1888	Harvester-thresher	Matteson
1891	Submarine	Holland
1892	Electric automobile	Morrison
1892	Gasoline automobile	Duryea
1896	Electric stove	Hadaway
1896	Plow disc	Hardy