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====1860s==== * '''1860:''' [[Joseph Swan]] produces [[carbon fibers]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Deng|first1=Yuliang|title=CARBON FIBER ELECTRONIC INTERCONNECTS|url=http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/6997/umi-umd-4508.pdf;jsessionid=68F4C2E5ED25F0593891CE08553A7BF3?sequence=1}}</ref> * '''1864:''' [[Louis Pasteur]] invents the [[pasteurization]] process. * '''1865:''' [[Carl Wilhelm Siemens]] and [[Pierre-Γmile Martin]] invented the Siemens-Martin process for making steel. * '''1867:''' [[Alfred Nobel]] invents [[dynamite]], the first safely manageable explosive stronger than [[black powder]]. * '''1867:''' Lucien B. Smith invents [[barbed wire]], which [[Joseph F. Glidden]] will modify in 1874, leading to the taming of [[American frontier|the West]] and the end of the cowboys.
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