Notable Inventions of the 1850s
Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first working version of the invention is used here.
1852: Airship: Henri Giffard
1852: Passenger elevator: Elisha Otis
1852: Gyroscope: L?on Foucault
1855: Bunsen burner: Robert Bunsen
1855: Bessemer process: Henry Bessemer
1856: First celluloids: Alexander Parkes
1858: Undersea telegraph cable: Fredrick Newton Gisborne
1858: Shoe sole sewing machine: Lyman R. Blake
1858: Mason jar: John L. Mason
1859: Oil drill: Edwin L. Drake
1859: rechargable storage battery: Gaston Plante