1800 to 1850 Timeline Outline

The Industrial Revolution Advances
(Circa 1800)

Phasing Out Latin as the International Language
(1800)

The First Completely Iron Printing Press
(Circa 1800)

Gradual Disappearance of the Long S in Typography
(Circa 1800 – 1820)

The Origin of the Library of Congress
(April 24, 1800)

The First Patent for Paper Recycling
(April 28, 1800)

The First Edition of the Qur'an Printed by Muslims
(1801)

The First Census of England, Scotland and Wales
(1801)

The Prince of Mathematicians
(1801)

The First Book Printed on Recycled Paper, with an Appendix Printed on Paper Made from Wood Pulp
(1801)

Invention of the Pie Chart
(1801)

Senefelder 's Earliest Technical Description of the Process of Lithography
(June 20, 1801)

First Report on the Organization of the Library of Congress
(December 18, 1801)

Written From a Viewpoint in Harmony with the Modern Ecology Movement
(1802 – 1818)

Bowditch's "New American Practical Navigator"
(1802)

The First Book Printed in Australia
(1802)

The First Catalogue of the Library of Congress
(April 1802 – October 1803)

The Jacquard Loom Uses Punched Cards to Store Patterns
(1803)

Lithography by Zinc Plates
(1803)

The First Newspaper in Australia Begins Publication
(March 5, 1803)

The First World Atlas Printed by Muslims
(April 1803 – March 1804)

Fourdrinier Machines for Paper Manufacture
(1804 – 1807)

The Carbon Content of Soil is Produced by Vegetation
(1804)

The First Practical Manual on Antiquarian Bookselling
(1804 – 1805)

First Publication of the Method of Least Squares
(1805)

Geographical-Ecological Plant Associations
(1805)

The First Thematic Index of a Composer's Work, Based on Mozart's Own Index
(1805)

The Meter (Metre) is Calculated Scientifically
(1806 – 1821)

Webster's Dictionary
(1806 – 1828)

Invention of Carbon Paper
(1806)

The Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire
(1807)

Machine Manufacturing of Paper in Separate Sheets
(1807 – 1812)

The First Steel-Engraved Book Illustration and the First Lithographed Book Illustration
(1807)

The First Periodic Table of the Elements
(1808 – 1827)

The First Book Printed Entirely by Lithography
(1808 – 1817)

Foundation of Aerodynamics and Invention of the Airplane
(1809 – 1810)

The First American Type Specimen
(1809)

The Dickinson Cylinder-Mould Papermaking Machine
(1809)

185 Paper Mills in the U.S.
(1810)

The First Edition Bindings of Cloth-Backed Paper Boards
(1810 – 1820)

The First Book on Modern Food Preservation Methods
(1810)

"The Best and Last of the General Rare Book Bibliographies"
(1810 – 1865)

The First Printing from the First Steam Powered Printing Press at 800 Impressions per Hour
(March 29, 1810 – April 1811)

The First English Book Entirely on Bookbinding
(1811)

The First Steam-Powered Cylinder Flat-Bed Press, and the First Issue of its Printing
(October 30, 1811 – 1813)

The Ludd Riots
(November 11, 1811 – January 12, 1813)

Detailed Patent for the Endless Chain-Mould Papermaking Machine
(1812)

The Oldest Society of Bibliophiles
(June 16, 1812)

Manufactured for Over a Century
(1813 – 1817)

The First Rotary Press
(1813)

The First Illustrated Book Published in Australia
(1813)

Printing 1100 Sheets per Hour
(July 23, 1813 – November 29, 1814)

The Library of Congress is Destroyed During the War of 1812
(August 25, 1814)

Thomas Jefferson's Library Becomes the Core of the New Library of Congress
(Circa September 1814)

The Star Spangled Banner
(September – November 1814)

Printing 900 to 1,000 Perfected Sheets per Hour
(December 24, 1814 – February 1816)

The First Literary Magazine Published in the United States
(1815)

Congress Buys Thomas Jefferson's Library
(January 1815)

The First Extensive Catalogue of the Library of Congress
(November 1815)

The First Working Electric Telegraph
(1816)

Speeding up Printing the News
( – 1816)

"Egyptian": The First Commercially Produced Sans-Serif Typeface
(1816)

Key Steps in Speeding up Cylinder Printing
(1816 – 1818)

The Distribution of Wealth, Including How it Applies to the Value of Rare Books
(1817)

The First Book Printed in Persia (Iran)
(1817)

Invention of the Two-Wheeled Bicycle- the First Personalized Mechanical Transport
(June 12, 1817)

First Recognizable Statement of the Theory of Natural Selection
(1818)

Invention of Chromolithography?
(1818)

The First American Printer's Manual
(1818)

Manual of Lithography, Bookbinding, and Cleaning and Restoring Paper
(1818 – 1824)

A Time-Capsule of Technology
(1819)

The Natural History of Man
(1819)

The Earliest Known Dust Jacket
(1819 – 1829)

The First Lithograph Printed in the United States
(July 1819)

The First Commercially Produced Mechanical Calculator
(1820)

Machine-Made Paper Exceeds the Production of Hand-Made Paper
(Circa 1820)

The First Cloth Edition Bindings
(Circa 1821)

Foundation of the Ecole nationale des chartes
(February 22, 1821)

Babbage Begins Construction of his Difference Engine
(1822)

Deciphering the Hieroglyphs
(1822)

The Fourier Series
(1822)

Foundation of the Birth Control Movement
(1822)

The First Machine for Type Composition
(1822)

The First American Book with Lithographed Illustrations
(1822)

The First Indigenous Arabic Press in Egypt
(December 1822)

Invention of the Mechanical Pencil
(December 20, 1822)

Deciphering the Hieroglyphs
(1823)

The First Genuine Human Fossil Discovered by a Scientist
(1823)

The Double Publication of the Double Elephant Folio of Anatomy
(1823 – 1826)

The First Opinion Poll
(1824)

First Description of the Greenhouse Effect
(1824)

Animal Ecology
(1824)

A Press in Malta to Print Books in Arabic & Turkish
(1825 – 1842)

Roughly 600 Books Year are Produced in the U.K.
(Circa 1825)

Invention of the Dandy-Roll in Machine Papermaking
(1825)

The First Publically Subscribed Passenger Railroad
(September 27, 1825)

The First Newspaper Published in South America
(November 7, 1825)

Describing the Logic and Operation of Machinery by Means of Notation
(1826)

The First Ecological Experiment; Source of Darwin's Principle of Divergence
(1826)

4000-5000 Impressions per Hour
(1827)

Discovery of the Mammalian Ovum
(1827)

The First "Leaf Book"
(1827)

Brownian Motion
(1828)

The First "Livre d'Artiste"
(1828)

The First Common Carrier Railroad in the United States
(July 4, 1828 – May 24, 1830)

Reaching 24 Miles Per Hour
(1829 – September 15, 1830)

The First U.S. Steam Locomotive
(1829)

The Braille System of Printing and Reading for the Blind
(1829)

Typing a Letter Takes Longer than Writing by Hand
(1829)

Non-Euclidean Geometry
(1829 – 1830)

The First Illustrated Antiquarian Bookseller's Catalogue
(1829)

Circulation of the Times of London is 11,000
(1830)

Case Bindings which Allow Mechanized Stamping
(Circa 1830)

The First Attempt Since that of Montfaucon (1739) to Publish a Union Catalogue of Manuscripts in European Libraries
(1830 – 1853)

The Basis for Electricity Generation
(1831)

The Beginning of Operations Research
(1832)

The First Press to Operate in Palestine since about 1577
(1832)

Non-Euclidean Geometry Independently Discovered
(1832 – 1833)

Decipherment of the Mayan System of Counting
(1832)

The First Lithographed Books Printed in Persia
(1832 – 1837)

The Penny Magazine
(1832 – 1845)

The Earliest Known Printed Dust Jacket (Now Lost)
(1832)

Probably the Earliest to Use Punched Cards for Information Processing and Storage
(September 1832)

William Whewell Coins the Term "Scientist"
(1833)

The First Great American Contribution to Physiology
(1833)

The Analytical Engine
(1834)

Theory of the Ice Age; Global Cooling and Warming
(1834 – 1841)

The "Average Man"
(1835)

The First Commercially Viable Method of Color Printing
(1835)

The First Complete Printed Edition in Arabic of the Thousand and One Nights
(1835)

Solution of Differential Equations Using a Mechanical Device
(1836)

Origins of the National Library of Medicine
(1836)

Probably the First Book on a Secular Subject Printed in Arabic in Middle East
(1836)

Genesis of the "Three-Age" System in Archaeology
(1836)

Poe Writes Maelzel's Chess Player
(April 1836)

Origins of the Morse Code
(1837)

The Penny Post: Perhaps the Greatest Single Stimulus to Written Communication
(1837 – 1840)

The Greatest Private Collector of Manuscripts in the Nineteenth Century
(1837 – 1871)

Pitman Shorthand, & The First "Correspondence Course"
(1837)

The First Commercial Electric Telegraph
(July 25, 1837 – January 1, 1845)

Mathematical Model of a Continuously Growing Population
(1838)

Foundation of the Public Record Office
(1838)

Foundation of the Cell Theory
(1838)

Invention of "Illuminated Printing"
(1838 – 1840)

The Most Famous Image in the Early History of Computing
(1839)

Daguerreotypes: The First Commonly Used Photographic Process
(January 7 – August 19, 1839)

The First Separate Publication on Photography
(January 31, 1839)

Probably the World's Oldest Picture Postcard
(1840)

The "Pianotype" : The First Composing Machine That Was Actually Used
(1840)

Exceptionally Wide Commemoration of the Quatercentenary of Gutenberg
(1840)

The Penny Black
(May 1, 1840)

Cantata by Mendelssohn to Honor Gutenberg
(June 1840)

Exposition of Bubbles
(1841)

Panizzi's 91 Rules for Standardizing the Cataloguing of Books
(1841)

The First American Book with Chromolithographed Illustrations
(1841)

Invention of Anastatic Printing
(October 1841 – October 25, 1845)

Funding Cut Off for the Difference Engine No. 1
(1842)

The First Published Computer Programs
(1842)

The First Book Typeset by a Mechanical Typesetting Machine
(1842)

The Basis for Blueprints
(1842)

The Doppler Principle
(1842)

The First Illustrated News Publication
(May 12, 1842)

The First Periodical Typeset, Printed and Bound Entirely by Machine
(December 17, 1842)

Translated and Augmented by Lord Byron's Daughter
(1843)

The First Working Difference Engine
(1843)

One of the Earliest Photographs of Books
(1843 – 1844)

Michael Faraday on Decay in Leather Bookbindings
(April 7, 1843)

The First Commercial Christmas Card
(May 1, 1843)

"Without being Worked out by Human Head & Hands. . ."
(July 10, 1843)

The First Book Illustrated with Photographs
(October 1843 – 1853)

News of the World Begins Publication
(October 1, 1843)

Computing within the Context of Biology
(1844)

Foundation of Microphotography; Landmark in Hematology, Oncology, and Pathology
(1844 – 1845)

The First English Book Publisher to Offer Printed Color Plates at a Low Price for the Popular Market
(1844 – 1845)

Morse Transmits the First Message by Morse Code
(May 24, 1844)

The First Photographically Illustrated Book Commercially Published.
(June 1844 – April 1846)

Papermaking from Wood Pulp Rediscovered & Industrialized
(October 26, 1844 – August 1845)

The First Annotated Bibliography of the History of Economics
(1845)

Mechanization of Punch-Cutting for Printing Types
(August 14, 1845)

The Horizontal Rotary Press Accelerates Printing
(1846)

Beginning of the American Conservation Movement
(1846)

Pioneering Treatise on the Antiquity of Man
(1846 – 1849)

The First Book on the Restoration of Rare Books and their Bindings
(1846)

First Installments of the First Government-Sponsored National Union Catalogue of Manuscripts
(1846 – 1849)

Discovery of Surgical Anesthesia
(October 16 – November 18, 1846)

The Introduction of Anesthesia in Obstetrics
(December 1, 1846)

Boolean Algebra
(1847)

Sending Weather Information by Telegraph
(1847)

The First Scientific Instrument to Record Scientific Information in Real Time
(1847)

The First Separately Published Bibliography on the History of Science
(1847)

Marsh's First Publication on Ecology
(September 30, 1847)

The First Publically Supported Municipal Library in the U.S.
(1848)

The Associated Press is Founded
(1848)

The First Mechanical Printing Press Arrives in Japan
(1848)

Spencerian Script
(Circa 1848 – 1920)

Foundation of the Boston Public Library
(1848)

The Communist Manifesto
(February 21, 1848)

The First of the Industrial Insurance Companies that Processed Immense Amounts of Data
(May 30, 1848)

The Railroad also Becomes an Information Distribution Network
(November 1, 1848)

The First Automatically Made Numerical Table Printed by the First Printing Calculator
(1849)

Application of Jacquard Punched Paper Technology to Typesetting Machinery
(1849)

Report on Select Committee on Public Libraries
(July 23, 1849)

"Notes and Queries" Begins Publication
(November 3, 1849)