1794 – 1830

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1794 Laurent Lavoisier Escapes French Revolution
1795 Laurent Lavoisier escapes to the United States of America. He quickly becomes partners with Du Pont and other French expatriates. He invents such items as nitrocellulose double and triple based propellants.
1797 William Hale
1799 Walter Hancock
1800 John Stringfellow
1801 ‘Anyos Jedlik
1802 Sir George Biddell Airy Immanuel Nobel
1803 Lavoisier and DuPont form a company (Du Pont Lavoisier) in the United States of America to produce gunpowder. Over the ensuing decades this company becomes the largest producer of gun powder in North America. Over half of the gunpowder used by the Union Army was made by DPL.
1804 Joseph Paxton
1805 Sir richard Owen
1806 Frederick Marriott
1807 I.K. Brunel
1808 Solomon Andrews
1809 Lavoisier develops nitrocellulose based compounds. These are initially used primarily for rockets, although within ten years high quality sporting rifles are being produced with the use of slow burning smokeless powders.
1810
1812 Charles Robert Darwin Laurent Lavoisier Cayley publishes “On Aerial Navigation”
1813 W Armstrong
1814 W.S. Henson
1815 Thomas Andrews
1818 The Congress of Vienna redraws the borders of Europe. Napoleon returns from Elba for the 100 days campaign and is defeated at Waterloo
1819 Ada Lovelace
1820 George Boole Settlement of Singapore founded by British East India Company
1821 Eduard Totleben
1822 James Prescott Joule
1825 Queen Victoria Charles Babbage begins work on mechanical analog computer, which he calls a Difference Engine
1827 Prince Albert
1828 John Couch Adams Karl Baedeker publishes first travel guide
1830 James B Eads William Congreve Steam road omnibus

 

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