Timeline

1825 – D. B. Gurney Company Established

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1825 - John Quincy Adams elected the 6^th President of the United States.
1825 - The United States of America had 24 states in the union.
1825 - Abraham Lincoln was 16 years old.
1832 - Morse Code
1836 - Battle of the Alamo
1849 - California Gold Rush begins
1852 - Otis invented the passenger elevator, including a safety brake.
1857 - The first American to patent a toothbrush
1860 - Abraham Lincoln elected 16^th President of the United States.
1861 - American Civil War begins.
1865 - D.B. Gurney Company moves to So. Abington. This section of town later changes its name to Whitman.
1865 - 13^th Amendment, abolishes slavery
1865 - Abraham Lincoln assassinated at Ford Theater.
1868 - The first modern typewriter is patented
1869 - First Transcontinental Railroad is completed.
1873 - Levi Strauss invented blue jeans
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1879 - Thomas Edison invents the incandescent light bulb
1880 - Candlepin Bowling was developed in Worcester, MA
1885 - Washington monument completed
1897 - The first subway line in America was opened in/under Boston, MA.
1899 - Bostonian Shoe Company was founded in Whitman, MA.
1900 - The Thumbtack was invented
1901 - Toledo Scales begin production
1903 - Wright Brothers made the first successful, powered, piloted flight in history.
1908 - The Ford Motor Company begins production of Model T cars.
1912 - The Titanic sinks
1914 - World War I begins
1919 - 18^th Amendment, establishing Prohibition
1920 - 19^th Amendment, women earn the right to vote
1925 - A public demonstration of the first television took place in London, England
1928 - Admiral Richard Byrd leads American exploration of Antartic
1928 - Alexander Flemming discovered Penicillin
1928 - Sliced Bread is invented
1929 - Black Tuesday, the Wall Street stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression
1930 - The Chocolate Chip Cookie is invented at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, MA.
1941 - U. S. enters World War II
1942 - Duct Tape began fixing everything.
1947 - Polaroid camera invented.
1950 - First universal Credit Card issued by Diners Club
1955 - Disneyland opens in Anaheim, CA
1959 - Alaska and Hawaii become 49^th and 50^th states, respectively
1964 - The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, and the British Invasion begins
1969 - Neil Armstrong takes first steps on moon.
1975 - Digital Cameras Invented
1977 - Cell Phones go public. Trials began in Chicago, IL
1980 - Post-It-Notes debuted in U.S. stores
1981 - Space Shuttle launched. The first re-usable spacecraft.
1986 - 3D Printing patented
1990 - Hubble Telescope takes orbit
1991 - World Wide Web created
1992 - D. B. Gurney manufactures clout nails used in the restoration of the USS Constitution “Old Ironsides”
2001 - Apple releases first generation iPod
2004 - Social Networking begins
2008 - Self-Driving Cars began on the Google Campus