1849 Corliss engine George H. Corliss U.S. 1850 Mercerized cotton John Mercer English. 1851 Breech-loading rifle Maynard U.S. 1851 Ice-making machine Gorrie U.S. 1852 Telegraph fire alarm Channing & Farmer U.S. 1854 Diamond rock drill Herman U.S. 1854 Revolver Smith & Wesson U.S. 1855 Cocaine Gaedeke German. 1855 Bessemer steel Sir Henry Bessemer English. 1855 Bicycle Michaux French. 1856 Sleeping car Woodruff U.S. 1858 Cable car Gardner U.S. 1858 First Atlantic cable Cyrus Field U.S. 1859 "Great Eastern" launched   U.S. 1861 Passenger elevator E. G. Otis U.S. 1861 Barbed wire fence   U.S. 1862 Gattling gun Dr. R. J. Gattling U.S. 1865 Antiseptic surgery Sir Jos. Lister English. 1866 Open hearth steel process Siemens-Martin English. 1866 Torpedoes Whitehead U.S. 1868 Typewriting machine C. L. Sholes U.S. 1868 Dynamite Nobel French. 1868 Oleomargarine Mege French. 1868 Sulky plow Slusser U.S. 1869 Spring tooth harrow Garver U.S. 1870 Celluloid Hyatt U.S. 1872 Automatic brake Geo. Westinghouse U.S. 1872 Car coupler E. H. Janney U.S. 1873 Quadruplex telegraph Thos. A. Edison U.S. 1873 Twine binder harvester Gorham U.S. 1873 Self-binding reaper Loche & Wood U.S. 1875 Roller flour mills Wegmann U.S. 1875 Ice-making machine Pictet Switzerland. 1876 Telephone Dr. Alex. Graham Bell U.S. 1877 Phonograph Thos. A. Edison U.S. 1877 Gas engine N. A. Otto U.S. 1877 Telephone transmitter Emile Berliner U.S. 1878 Carbon filament for electric lamps Thos. A. Edison U.S. 1878 Rotary disc cultivator Mallon U.S. 1880 Telephone transmitter Blake U.S. 1880 Hammerless gun Greener U.S. 1880 Typhoid bacillus Robert Koch German. 1880 Pneumonia bacillus Sternberg U.S. 1881 Buttonhole machine Reece U.S. 1882 Tuberculosis bacillus Robert Koch German. 1882 Hydrophobia bacillus Louis Pasteur French. 1884 Cholera bacillus Robert Koch German. 1884 Diphtheria bacillus Loefler German. 1884 Lockjaw bacillus Nicolaier French. 1884 Antipyrene Kuno U.S. 1884 Linotype machine Ottmar Mergenthaler U.S. 1885 First electric street railway in the U.S.   Baltimore, Md. 1885 Overhead electric trolley Van Depole U.S. 1886 Graphophone Bell & Tainter U.S. 1887 Cyanide process McArthur & Forest U.S. 1887 Incandescent gas light Carl Welsbach German. 1888 Harveyized armor plate Harvey U.S. 1888 Kodak snapshot camera Eastman & Walker U.S. 1890 Bicycles equipped with pneumatic tires