Engineer Alva J. Fisher patented the electric washing machine.
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Thomas Edison completed his first model of a phonograph.
George Selden filed for the first patent for a gasoline-driven automobile.
The UK approved the first American patent.
The world celebrated the introduction of sliced bread for the first time.
William B. Purvis patented the electric switch on railways that would shut off the electric supply after carriages pass the contact device.
