52 Ancestors - CHANGES: Oh the Things He Saw

One of the features I included in my coffee table book about the Jolletts was a list of inventions that an ancestor saw in his or her lifetime. Here is the list for my 2X great-grandfather James Franklin Jollett.

1837	Steel plow	1885	Rabies vaccine and box camera
1838	Daguerreotype	1886	Coca Cola
1839	Vulcanized rubber	1887	Railroad telegraph
1840	Artificial fertilizer and transatlantic steamship service	1888	Ballpoint pen and revolving door
1842	Ether-based anesthesia	1889	Coin operated telephone
1843	Typewriter	1891	Motion picture camera
1844	Telegraph	1892	Braille typewriter, horseless carriage
1845	Double-tube tire	1893	Hershey’s chocolate bar
1846	Elias Howe sewing machine	1895	X-rays
1849	Safety pin and hydraulic turbine	1897	Diesel engine and cotton candy
1850	Levi Straus bibless overalls	1899	Paper clip
1851	Singer sewing machine	1900	Hamburger sandwich
1852	Passenger elevator	1901	Electric typewriter
1856	Steel processing	1902	Battery powered hearing aid
1858	Shoe sole sewing machine, Mason jar, and undersea telegraph cable	1903	Airplane and hand-cranked victrola
1859	First commercial oil well in PA	1904	Ice cream cone and comic books
1860	Linoleum and repeating rifle	1905	Juke box, postcards, and Yellow Pages
1861	Ironclad ship (Monitor)	1906	Animated cartoons
1862	Revolving machine gun	1908	Henry Ford’s Model T
1863	Player piano	1909	Neon lamp and Bakelite plastic
1864	Pullman sleeping car for trains	1911	Cellophane
1865	Ice machine	1913	Edison’s Kinetophone for talking movies, zipper, and assembly line
1866	Dynamite and transatlantic cable	1914	Kool Aid
1870	All metal bicycle and time zones	1915	Loudspeaker
1872	Donut cutter and wood pulp as a source for paper	1919	Electrocardiogram, rotary dial, and shortwave radio
1874	Barbed wire	1921	Insulin
1875	First Bell telephone and Edison’s wireless telegraph	1923	Cotton swab
1879	Cash register and Edison’s incandescent electric lamp	1927	Television
1880	Eastman roll of film	1928	Penicillin, bubble gum, and the iron lung
1882	Electric clothes iron	1929	Antibiotics and car radio
1884	Fountain pen, Louisville Slugger, first roller coaster in America	1930	Nylon and dry ice

Amy Johnson Crow continues to challenge genealogy bloggers and non-bloggers alike to think about our ancestors and share a story or photo about them. The challenge is “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks.”

Wendy

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