David Ames
WELLS
(b.
17 June 1828
,
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
d.
5 November 1898
,
Norwich, Connecticut, USA
)
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David Ames WELLS was born 17 June 1828 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
David Ames WELLS was the child of ? and ?David Ames WELLS died 5 November 1898 in Norwich, Connecticut, USA .
m. 9 May 1860 to Mary Sanford Dwight
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David Ames WELLS was a American engineer, textbook author, economist .
David Ames WELLS was a American engineer, textbook author, economist .
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1828 Birth 17 June 1828
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
From the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.
1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)
1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.
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1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)
1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)
First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented
1898 Death 5 November 1898
Norwich, Connecticut, USA
He died at the age of 70.
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