1850 to 1875 Timeline Outline

The First Telegraph Cable between England and France
(1850 – November 13, 1851)

The Circulation of "The Times" of London Reaches 38,000
(1850)

Using a Fleet of 45 Carrier Pigeons to Deliver News
(1850)

Flong as an "Immutable Form of Information Capture"
(Circa 1850)

The Public Libraries Act of 1850
(August 14, 1850)

The "Computer" Might Occupy a Space Larger than London
(1851)

Using a Fleet of 200 Carrier Pigeons and the Telegraph
(1851)

"In Wildness is the Preservation of the World."
(1851)

Using Microphotography for Document Preservation
(1851 – 1852)

The First Modern Institution of Learning in Iran
(1851)

The New York Times Begins Publication
(September 18, 1851)

Fire Destroys Two-Thirds of the Library of Congress
(December 24, 1851)

Speeding Communication between Paris and London
(1852)

Early Proposal for a National Union Catalogue
(1852)

Invention of the Micropantograph
(1852 – 1862)

Roget's Thesaurus
(April 29, 1852)

The Second Scheutz Difference Engine
(1853)

Boolean Algebra
(1854)

Cyrus Field Intends to Lay an Atlantic Cable
(1854 – 1856)

The First Relief Half-Tone
(1854)

Printing Telegraph Messages
(1855)

First Widely Read Textbook of Oceanography and Atmospherics
(1855)

Splendid Monograph Describing "Addison's Disease"
(1855)

Production of Mummy Paper in Nineteenth Century America
(1855)

The First Newspaper Printed in Color
(December 22, 1855)

Cyrus Field and Partners Found The Atlantic Telegraph Company
(1856)

One of the Most Remarkable Human Computers
(1856)

The First Book of Printed Reproductions of Photographs
(1856 – 1857)

Keyword in Context Indexing
(1856)

Physiological Optics, Published Over 11 Years
(1856 – 1867)

Foundation of the National Portrait Gallery
(December 2, 1856)

The First Attempt to Lay the Atlantic Cable Fails
(1857)

The First Book to Include a Photograph of its Author
(1857)

The First Dust Jackets in the Flap-Style on Books Printed in English
(1857)

Origins of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
(1857)

Lissajous Figures
(1857)

Reuters Expands, Following Telegraph Lines
(1858)

The First Distance Learning Program
(1858)

Florence Nightingale's Rose Diagram
(1858 – January 1859)

Perhaps the Earliest Australian Type Specimen and Trade Catalogue
(1858)

The Atlantic Cable Operates Successfully for Three Weeksication on the Cable Fails Within 3 Weeks
(August 16 – September 18, 1858)

First Printed Exposition of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
(August 20, 1858)

Having Refused to Support Babbage, the British Government Pays for a Difference Engine Produced in Sweden
(1859)

Constantin von Tischendorf Discovers the Codex Sinaiticus
(1859)

One of the Major Publishing Successes of the 19th Century
(1859 – October 1861)

The First Comprehensive Account of the Development of Libraries
(1859)

The First Book on Baseball
(1859)

The Beginning of the American Petroleum Industry
(August 27, 1859)

On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection
(November 24, 1859)

100,000 Tons of Paper, Only 4% Made by Hand
(1860)

The Earliest Sound Recordings, without Playback
(1860)

Forest Ecology
(1860)

The First Compilation of Baseball Statistics
(1860)

The Pony Express
(April 3, 1860 – October 26, 1861)

The Origins of Network Neutrality
(June 16, 1860)

The First Clear Photographic Aerial View of a City
(October 13, 1860)

The First German Manual on "Machine Printing"
(1861)

Origins of the Internal Revenue Service
(July 1, 1861 – 1862)

New York and San Francisco are Connected by Telegraph
(October 24, 1861)

The True Inventor of the Telephone?
(October 27, 1861)

Foundation of the National Museum of Health and Medicine
(1862)

The Kochel-Verzeichnis
(1862)

The Largest Dictionary in Book Form
(1863)

The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man
(January 1863)

The Emancipation Proclamation
(January 1, 1863 – 1864)

The First Subway, The Metropolitan Railway, Opens in London
(January 10, 1863)

3-D Solar Imaging Reveals Details of Sunken Civil-War Era Steampship
(January 11, 1863)

Man's Place in Nature
(February 1863)

"Darwin among the Machines"
(June 13, 1863)

The First Instance of a Printing Calculator Used Extensively to do Original Work
(1864)

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
(1864)

Fountainhead of the Conservation Movement
(1864)

Probably the Earliest Paper on Paleolithic Mobiliary Art
(1864)

Field Equations
(1865)

The Philosophical Justification for Public Preservation of Great Natural Scenery
(1865)

First Publisher-Issued Dust Jacket in the United States
(1865)

Pre-Historic Times
(1865)

Discovery of the Mendelian Ratios
(1865)

The Role of Women as Typesetters in the French Printing Industry
(1865 – 1867)

The Atlantic Cable Snaps after 1200 Miles
(July 1865)

The First Printer Authorized to the Print the Qur'an in Constantinople
(1866)

The Sulfite Pulping Process for Manufacturing Paper
(1866)

The Third and Successful Atlantic Cable
(July 27, 1866)

The Stock Ticker
(1867)

The Library and Museum Moved to the Site of Lincoln's Assassination
(1867)

Spectacular Portrayal of One of the Largest 19th Century Book Manufacturers
(1867)

Das Kapital
(September 14, 1867)

The Times of London Prints on Continuous Paper, Increasing Production
(1868)

"On Governors"
(1868)

The First Device to Allow the Operator to Write Faster than a Person Writing by Hand
(1868)

The Wallace Line
(1869)

The Periodic Law and the Periodic Table
(1869)

Discovery of DNA
(1869 – 1871)

Possibly the Best Statistical Graphic Ever Drawn
(November 20, 1869)

The First Logic Machine to Solve Complicated Problems Faster than Man
(1870)

9,158,000,000 Telegraph Messages
(1870)

Circulation of the Times of London is 70,000
(1870)

British Telegraph is Nationalized
(1870)

The Pigeon Post into Paris: The First Important Application of Microfilm
(1870 – 1871)

The Baudot Code, The First Means of Digital Communication
(1870 – 1874)

Requring Universal Education of Children Between the Ages of 5 and 12 in England and Wales
(1870)

The Beginning of Modern Bibliographical Analysis
(April 1870)

Schliemann Discovers the Ancient City of Troy
(1871 – 1873)

Mathematical Study of Anthropological Data
(1871)

Human Origins Will be Found in Africa
(1871)

The First Catalogue of a Library on Computing and its History
(1872)

The First Book in French on "Machine Printing"
(1872)

"Erewhon"
(1872)

Darwin Founds Ethology, Studies the Conveyance of Information, and Contributes to Psychology
(1872)

Calling for a Central Bibliographical Bureau Which Would Also Store Images
(July 25 – November 29, 1872)

Willoughy Smith Discovers the Photoconductivity of Selenium
(1873)

Forest and Stream Magazine
(1873)

The First QWERTY Keyboard
(1873 – 1874)

The First Comprehensive Bibliography of the History of Printing
(1873 – 1886)

"Poisonous Papers," and a Poisonous Book Published in an Edition of 100 Copies
(1873 – 1874)

Traveler's Cheques
(1874)

The Principia of Thermodynamics
(1874 – 1878)

The First National Thematic Atlas
(1874)

Maxwell's Three-Dimensional Thermodynamic Surface in Clay
(1874)