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Home Appliance
The first practical dishwasher was created in 1859 by Josephine Cochrane.although a washing machine device was patented in 1850 by Joel Houghton.Her friends talked a lot about their new machines and soon, Mrs. Cochrane was getting orders for her dishwashing machine from restaurants and hotels in Illinois. She patented her design and went into production. She showed her invention at the 1873 World's Columbian Exhibition and won the highest. Her company later became what is now KitchenAid. Josephine Cochrane lived March 8, 1839 and died August 3, 1913. jpg - www.alincolnlearning.us/ dishwasher2.jpg

Computer Industry in the Day
Charles Babbage designed the Difference engine in 1851. The Difference Engine was an automatic mechanical calculator designed to do the job of the human 'computers'. it was a calculating machine that was many time faster then a human. Babbage wanted to replace the human comptuers due to the many errors made, his machine made none.

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Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1861. This was the first fully-automatic calculating machine. Charles Babbage (1792-1871) first conceived the idea of an advanced calculating machine to calculate and print mathematical tables in 1812. This machine was designed to evaluate any mathematical formula and have even higher powers of analysis than his original 'difference' engine. Only part of the machine was completed before Babbage's death in 1871. www.computermuseum.li/ Testpage/Babbage-Differ...

American History in the Day
In 1859 Charles Darin published the origin of species. The scientific community accepted evolution as a fact because of it. in 1854 the Republican Party was created to aid in the abolition of slavery. In 1857. The Dred Scott decision was announced, which said slaves were not protected by the constituion and could never be U.S citizens.

World Events of the Day

 * The Crimean war was fought in 1853-1856 between the Russian Emprie on one side and an alliance of the British empire, French Empire, Ottoman empire, the Kingodm of Sardinia, and the Duchy of Nassau on the other.The Crimean War is notorious for the logistical and tactical errors on both sides. Nonetheless, it is considered to be the first "modern" war as it "introduced technical changes which affected the future course of warfare," including the first tactical use of railways and telegraph.
 * In 1850 Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels publish the communist manifesto and is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts.It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. :(
 * In 1851 the French revolution ended. Louis family name of //napoleon// rallied support, and after sweeping the elections he returned to the old order, purging republicans and returning the "vile multitude" (Thiers) to its former place. By the December 2, 1851 coup, he dissolved the National Assembly and became the sole ruler of France. Resistance surfaced, but was put down, and the Second Republic was over. He reestablished universal suffrage, and Louis Napoleon took the title Emperor Napoleon III, and the Second Empire began.

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