2004 Joseph James Zimmerman, inventor, invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948, dies at 91
1993 Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies
1991 Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
1991 "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show
1991 "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
1979 Wil Horneff, born in Englewood, New Jersey, actor, Ghost in the Machine, Sandlot
1978 Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)
1976 "Magnificent Marble Machine," last airs on NBC-TV
1961 Nia Peeples, [Vernia], Hollywood, dancer/host, Fame, Party Machine
1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
1954 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)
1954 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Massachusetts
1950 Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories
1950 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1950 William "Bill" Griffin, U.S. singer, Miracles-Love Machine
1946 H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79
1945 Hugh Hopper, rocker, Soft Machine
1944 Henry Kravis, author, The Money Machine
1943 Jerry Maitini, U.S. saxophonist, Sly and Family Stone-Sex Machine
1939 Yvette Mimieux, Hollywood Cal, actr, Time Machine, Where the Boys Are
1938 Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine
1937 John Phillip Law, Hollywood, actor, Barbarella, Love Machine
1935 Betsy von Furstenberg, Nelheim Ger, actress, Machine Calls it Murder
1932 Billie Whitelaw, born in Coventry, England, actress, Omen, Adding Machine
1929 Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, New York
1929 Rod Taylor, Sydney Australia, actor, Bearcats, Time Machine
1928 1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented
1926 Sydney Chaplin, son of Charlie/actor, Adding Machine, Psycho Sisters
1925 Shecky Greene, born in Chicago, Illinois, comedian/actor, Love Machine, Combat
1924 Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1923 Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine," premieres in New York City
1919 Alan Young, England, actor, Time Machine, Wilbur Post-Mr Ed
1918 Sebastian Cabot, London, actor, Mr French-Family Affair, Time Machine
1916 Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Co
1912 Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory, Turing Machine
1912 U.S. Army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1911 "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" hits #1
1910 Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine
1909 Whit Bissel, New York City, actor, Time Machine, General Kirk-Time Tunnel
1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine
1902 Irving W. Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine
1898 Machine gun 1st used in battle
1896 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in U.S. (New York City)
1895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
1895 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine
1892 New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
1889 Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies
1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed in Chicago
1889 Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st U.S. patent for a tabulating machine
1888 William Seward Burroughs patents adding machine
1887 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Washington D.C.
1886 1st New York Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine
1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine
1883 Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes
1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
1879 Paul Klee, born in Switzerland, abstract painter, Twittering Machine,
1877 Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph)
1875 Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63
1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
1872 Silas Noble and JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
1869 Voting machine patented by Thomas A. Edison
1868 Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine
1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
1866 1st U.S. company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut
1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
1863 Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, New York City
1862 Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun (Indianapolis)
1862 Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun
1861 William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine
1861 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale
1860 Herman Hollerith, inventor, 1st electric tabulating machine
1859 Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Massachusetts
1858 Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine
1858 Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
1857 Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine
1857 Maytag, inventor, washing machine
1857 James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1856 Cyrus Chambers, Jr. patents folding machine that folds book and newspapers
1856 Cullen Whipple patents screw machine
1855 Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
1855 William Seward Burroughs, New York, inventor, recording adding machine
1854 Allen Wilson of Connecticut patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
1854 1st street-cleaning machine in U.S. 1st used in Philadelphia
1854 Charles Miller patents 1st U.S. sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass
1852 Jan E Matzeliger, Surinamese inventor, shoe lacing machine
1851 Isaac Singer patents sewing machine
1851 Dr. John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
1850 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, New York
1849 Patent granted for an envelope-making machine
1846 Elias Howe patents sewing machine
1842 Micah Rugg patents a nuts and bolts machine
1842 1st known sewing machine patented in U.S., John Greenough, Washington D.C.
1837 Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
1835 Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy New York)
1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
1832 John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine
1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1819 Elias Howe, Spencer Massachusetts, invented sewing machine
1818 Richard Jordan Gatling, U.S., inventor, hand-cranked machine gun
1811 Issac Merrit Singer, inventor, 1st practical home sewing machine
1803 John Hawkins and Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
1799 1st U.S. patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
1798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut and bolt machine
1797 Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
1794 1st U.S. patent (Joseph G Pierson for a riveting machine)
1794 Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
1792 Charles Babbage, English inventor, calculating machine
1791 Samuel Briggs and his son, patent nail-making machine
1753 Samuel Crompton, English inventor, mule-jenny spinning machine
1718 James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun
1647 Denis Papin, French physicist, Papiniaanse pot, steam machine
1646 Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent
1502 Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine
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