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2. 1740 first magazine in America is published - American Magazine 89 journals published between 1740 and 1800 offer insights into America's transition from colonial times to independence. The journals support research for a range of academic fields. Titles include Massachusetts Magazine, which published America's first short stories, and Thomas Paine's Pennsylvania Magazine, which reported on inventions. One of the first mass printings of the Declaration of Independence, a letter by George Washington on the crucial Battle of Trenton, and the thoughts of Benjamin Franklin are among the highlights of content from this period.

3. 1750 1755 Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language The dictionary of the English Language was Published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson A Dictionary of the English Language published as Johnson's Dictionary is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language.

4. 1760 John Murray founded John Murray is an English publisher known for the authors it has published in its history including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, and Charles Darwin. Since 2004 it has been owned by conglomerate under the Hachette UK brand. This was in the year of 1768

5. 1770 1770 gum eraser In 1770, Edward Nairne an English engineer is credited with developing the first widely-marketed rubber eraser for an inventions competition. Until that time the material was known as gum elastic or by its native American name (via French) caoutchouc. Nairne sold natural rubber erasers for the high price of three shillings per half-inch cube

6. 1780 1783 Glasgow Herald founded The Herald Is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783. It is said to be the longest running national newspaper in the world. It is printed at Cambuslang , just outside Glasgow.

7. 1790 1792 postal money orders in Britain The money order system was made by a private firm in Great Britain in 1792. It was expensive and not very successful. In approximately 1836 it was sold to another private firm which lowered the fees which therefore significantly increased the popularity and usage of the system.

8. 1800 1806 carbon paper Carbon paper was originally carbonic paper was originally paper coated on one side with a layer of a loosely bound dry ink or pigmented coating bound with wax used for making one or more copies with the creation of an original document when using a typewriter or a ballpoint pen. The manufacture of carbon paper was formerly the largest consumer of montan wax. In 1954 the Columbia Ribbon & Carbon Manufacturing Company filed a patent for what became known in the trade as solvent carbon paper.

9. 1810 1813 can opener invented British merchant Peter Durand made an impact on food preservation with his 1810 patenting of the tin can. In 1813, John Hall and Bryan Dorkin opened the first commercial canning factory in England. In 1846, Henry Evans invents a machine that can manufacture tin cans at a rate of sixty per hour.

10. 1820 1827 first microphone constructed by Wheatstone A microphone is a device for converting acoustic power into electric power that has essentially similar wave characteristics. Microphones convert sound waves into electrical voltages that are eventually converted back into sound waves thru speakers. They were first used with early telephones and then radio transmitters.

11. 1830 1833 experimental 1 kilometre-long electric telegraph in Germany The electrical telegraph or telegraph, superseded optical semaphore telegraph systems such as the Transatlantic telegraph cableconstructed by the British empire to link Britain and North America, Claude Chappe's cables designed for communication among the French military, and Friedrich Clemens Gerkefor the Prussian military thus becoming the first form of electrical telecommunications

12. 1835 1838 Ottoman Tariff Convention The 1838 Treaty of Balta Liman, or the Anglo Ottoman Treaty is a formal trade agreement signed between the Sublime Porteof the Ottoman Empire and The United Kingdom. The trade policies imposed upon the Ottoman Empire, after the Treaty of Balta Limani, are considered to be some of the most liberal, open market, settlements that had ever been enacted during the time

13. 1840 1840 first postage stamps sold in Britain The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was issued in Britain on 1 May 1840, for official use from 6 May of that year and features a profile of the Queen Victoria.

14. 1842 first Christmas card The first Christmas cards were commissioned by Sir Henry. Cole and illustrated by John Callcott Horsley in London on the 1st of May 1843. The central picture showed three generations of a family raising a toast to the card's recipient: on either side were scenes of charity, with food and clothing being given to the poor.

15. 1843 Economist founded TheEconomist was founded by the British businessman and banker James Wilson in 1843 to advance the repeal of the Corn Laws, a system of import tariffs.A prospectus for the "newspaper from 5 August 1843 enumerated thirteen areas of coverage

16. 1844 Toronto Globe founded The Globe begun as a weekly newspaper on March 5 1844. In August 1844 it began to be printed on the first cylinder press in Canada West.

17. 1845 typewriter ribbon Many modern typewriters have one of several similar designs their invention was incremental, provided by numerous inventors.

18. 1846 Melbourne Argus appears The newspaper was originally owned by William Kerr who is a journalist who had worked with the Sydney Gazette before moving to Melbourne in 1839 to work on John Pascoe Fawkner's Port Phillip Patriot The first edition was published on 2 June 1846.

19. 1847 Levi Strauss invents denim jeans The California gold rush was in full swing. Everyday items were in short supply. Levi Strauss who was a 24-year-old German immigrant he left New York for San Francisco with a small supply of dry goods with the intention of opening a branch of his brother's New York dry goods business

20. 1848 first WH Smith railway bookstall H Smith & his Son William Henry, became a partner. The firm took advantage of the railway boom by opening news-stands on railway stations, starting with Euston in 1848.