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1860
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c. 1865:
Honoré
Daumier,
The Third-
Class Carriage
.
1866:
The first
successful transatlantic
cable is laid.
1867:
Alfred Nobel
invents dynamite.
1867:
Christopher Sholes
constructs the first
practical typewriter.
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1883:
The
Brooklyn Bridge is
opened to traffic.
1883:
William Jenney
designs the first
skyscraper, a ten-story
metal-frame building in
Chicago.
1861-65:
American
Civil War.
1863:
Abraham Lincoln
signs the Emancipation
Proclamation.
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1868:
Currier &
Ives,
American
Homestead Winter
.
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1860:
Charleston
Mercury
, broadsheet
announcing the
dissolution of the Union.
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c. 1875:
J. Ottmann,
chromolithographic
card for Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup.
1876:
Alexander
Graham Bell invents
the telephone.
1877:
Thomas Edison
invents the phonograph.
1879:
Thomas Edison
invents the electric
lightbulb.
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c. 1885:
Maverick & Wissinger,
engraved business card.
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1886:
Ottmar
Mergenthaler invents
the Linotype, the first
keyboard typesetting
machine.
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c. 1880s:
Lettering printed by
chromolithography.
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