FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1811 to 1824 - Next
1811 Elisha Graves Otis was born. He invented the first safe elevator, and opened the door to rooftop restaurants.
1811 Andrew Meikle died. A Scottish millwright, he invented the drum threshing machine.
1812 Richard Kirwan was born. Kirwan was an eccentric Irish chemist who hated flies. He had dysphagia, which is the inability to swallow food without convulsive movements. He always dined alone.
1812 Agoston Haraszthy de Mokcsa was born. Agoston Haraszthy de Mokcsa imported 1,400 varieties of grapevines to California in 1862 and planted the first large vineyard in California in the Sonoma Valley. After the devastating blight destroyed much of Europe's vineyards in the late 1860s, some of these same vines, now on resistant root stock, helped rescue the French and German wine industries.
1812 A power mower was patented.
1812 Benjamin Delessert developed the first successful process to extract sugar from sugar beets.
1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden was born. Glidden, an Illinois farmer, received a patent for the first commercial barbed wire on November 24, 1874. The beginning of the end to open range and the cowboy. Glidden formed the Barb Fence Company with his partner Isaac L. Ellwood, and became one of the wealthiest men in the country.
1813 Lorenzo Delmonico, famed restaurateur, was born at Marengo, Switzerland. In 1851 he joined his uncles in their catering and pastry shop in New York, Delmonico’s. He transformed the business into one of the most famous restaurants in the country.
1813 Alexander Wilson died. Scottish naturalist, ornithologist and poet. Founder of American ornithology.
1814 Last London Frost Fair on the frozen Thames River. Entertainment, and a large selection of food vendors.
1814 John Lineback patented the cottonseed hulling machine.
1814 Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford died. American physician who invented the percolator, a pressure cooker and a kitchen stove. He is frequently credited with creating baked Alaska.
1814 Antoine-Joseph (Adolphe) Sax was born. A musical instrument maker, he invented the saxophone.
1814 Joseph Bramah died. An English engineer, among his many inventions was a beer engine, used to deliver beer from keg to glass without artificial carbonation being added.
1815 The world's first commercial cheese factory was established in Switzerland.
1815 The first natural gas well in the U.S. was discovered by accident, near Charleston, West Virginia. They had been digging a salt brine well.
1815 Andrew Jackson Downing was born. American horticulturist, author of ‘The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America’ (1845) and editor of the 'Horticulturist' periodical.
1816 The first cranberry crop was harvested in Massachusetts.
1816 Crop failures in Europe; food riots in England and France.
1817 Antoine Beauvilliers Died. French chef who founded the first luxury restaurant, La Grande Taverne de Londres.
1817 Richard Lovell Edgeworth died. An Anglo-Irish inventor, among his many inventions and innovations were a turnip cutter, various improvements in agricultural machines, and a velocipede.
1817 The first coffee was planted in Hawaii on the Kona coast.
1817 Henry David Thoreau was born. American author, philosopher, and naturalist. Author of 'Walden; or, Life in the Woods.'
1817 Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert was born. Gilbert and his partner, Sir John Lawes, conducted agricultural experiments at Rothamsted Experimental Station, the oldest agricultural research station in the world. They are considered founding fathers of the agricultural sciences.
1817 Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert was born. An English chemist, he is the co-inventor (with John Bennet Lawes) of superphosphate fertilizer.
1817 Hippolyte Mege Mouries was born. A French scientist, he invented margarine and patented canned meat.
1817 The first coffee is planted in Hawaii.
1818 George Palmer was born. Palmer, of Huntley and Palmer biscuit manufacturers, who introduced the first biscuit tins.
1818 Paul Revere died. A silversmith and American Revolutionary folk hero, he also made surgical instruments and false teeth.
1818 Richard Jordan Gatling was born. Before inventing the Gatling Gun, he developed a machine for sowing rice, wheat, and other grains, and invented a steam plow.
1818 Thomas Adams was born. He manufactured the first commercially successful chewing gum, 'Black Jack.'
1819 J.J. Wood patented a plow with interchangeable parts (September 1).
1819 The New York State Board of Agriculture was established. It is the first organization of its kind in the U.S.
1819 Sir Joseph William Bazalgette was born. A British civil engineer, he designed the main sewer system for London.
1819 The periodical, 'American Farmer' was founded by John Skinner.
1820 The population of the U.S. is now 9,683,453.
1820 Jean Etienne Bore, died. Inventor of sugar granulating process (1794 or 1795), founder of sugar industry in Louisiana.
1820 Daniel Boone died. American pioneer and frontiersman.
1820 A whaling ship, the Essex, is rammed twice by a sperm whale and eventually sank.
1822 The first issue of 'The New England Farmer' was published.
1822 Charles Graham of New York received a patent for artificial teeth.
1822 Charles Graham received the first patent for false teeth.
1822 Paul Henderson was born. A Scottish-American scientist, known as the 'Father of America Horticulture,' he published 'Gardening for Profit’ and 'Gardening for Pleasure'.
1822 Gregor (Johann) Mendel was born. Mendel was an Austrian botanist whose work was the foundation of the science of genetics. Working mainly with garden peas (some 28,000 plants over 7 years), he discovered what was to become know as the laws of heredity.
1822 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was born. An American naturalist, co-founder with her husband (Louis Agassiz), of the Anderson school of Natural History. She was also the first president of Radclife College.
1822 Louis Pasteur was born. A French scientist, he showed that microorganisms were responsible for disease, food spoilage and fermentation. He developed the process for killing these organisms by heat, called Pasteurization. He also developed vaccines for anthrax, cholera and rabies.
1823 Alfred Russel Wallace was born. Wallace was a British naturalist who developed a theory of natural selection independently of Charles Darwin. He sent his conclusions to Darwin, and their findings were both presented to the Linnaean Society in 1858.
1823 Spencer Fullerton Baird was born. An American naturalist and zoologist, he was the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
1823 A Frenchman, Count Odette Phillipe, planted the first grapefruit trees in Florida around Tampa Bay. Today, Florida produces more grapefruit than the rest of the world combined.
1824 Jean Jacques Regis de Cambaceres died. A French politician and gourmet. A gastronomic contemporary and rival of Talleyrand and Carême. The dinners he gave were famous, and Cambaceres closely supervised the food preparation. He refused to admit late-comers, and was also said to have demanded complete silence while dining. (Freud would have like to meet him!)
1824 'The Virginia House-wife' cookbook by Mary Randolph was published.
1824 A washing machine was patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec. This was the first Canadian patent ever issued.
1824 John Simpson Chisum was born. American frontiersman and cattle rancher. In 1867 he blazed the Chisum Trial from Paris, Texas to New Mexico. Between 1870 and 1881 he had the largest cattle herd in the U.S. near Roswell, New Mexico.
1824 The city of Ciudad Bolivar in Venezuela, was founded in 1764, and was commonly known as Angostura. In 1824 a local doctor first formulated Angostura Bitters, now used as an aromatic flavoring in drinks and cooking.
1824 Ferdinand Carre was born. A French engineer and pioneer in refrigeration methods. In 1859 he invented the ammonia vapor-compression system which became the most widely used. Vapor compression is still the system most used today.
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