Timeline

1850 – 1860

1851

Isaac Merritt Singer creates the first Singer sewing machine

1853

Martha Coston invents the emergency flare

1853

The Lexarza Palace, the current headquarts of the National University of Distance Education (UNED), is built

1854

Ibarra, Hermanos y Cía, build the Nuestra Señora del Carmen factory in Barakaldo, with charcoal-fired blast furnaces

1856

Inauguration of the Bilbao-Tudela Railway

Henry Bessemer invented the converter for obtaining steel, which he had patented in 1855, is made public

1857

Approval of the foundation of Banco de Bilbao, established in 1856

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