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90 Things from the 19th Century

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The following is a list of things that were invented or greatly improved during the 19th century such that they can be considered 19th century things. This includes machines that drove the industrial revolution, infrastructure that allowed for global communication, consumer products that changed how people lived and inventions that transformed culture such as musical instruments, sports and the automobile. The following can be considered 19th century things.
Accordions
Airships
Anaesthesia
Automobiles
Banjos
Baseball
Basketball
Bathing suits
Bicycles
Canned food
Carbon paper
Cash registers
Cold breakfast cereal
Color photography
Cotton gins
Department stores
Diesel engines
Drum sets
Dynamite
Electric clocks
Electric fans
Electric irons
Electric light bulbs
Electric motors
Electric stoves
Electric streetcars
Electric telegraph
Electricity generation & distribution
Elevators
Escalator
Ferris wheels
Flashlight
Fountain pens
Gas lighting
Golf
Gramophones
Ice hockey
Incandescent light bulbs
Internal combustion engine
Kaleidoscopes
Lawnmowers
Lighters
Machine guns
Microphones
Morse code
Motion pictures
Nail clippers
Paper clips
Paper towels
Papermaking machines
Payphones
Peanut butter
Penny press that made newspapers affordable
Phonographs
Photographic printing
Photography & cameras
Portland cement
Potato chips
Power looms
Radio
Revolvers
Roll film for cameras
Rotary printing press
Rubber bands
Rugby
Safety glass
Safety pin
Saxophones
Seismograph
Sewing machines
Skyscrapers
Soft drinks
Spinning jenny
Staplers
Steam locomotives
Steam turbines
Steamships
Stethoscopes
Suspension bridges
Telephones
Thermostats
Ticker tape machines
Traffic lights
Tunnel boring machine
Typewriters
Vaccines
Volleyball
Wire services for news
X-rays
Zippers
Many of the inventions above occurred towards the end of the century and weren't really available until the 20th century. For example, the first operational escalator was introduced as ride at Coney Island in 1896.

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