What happened during these years?

Safety Lift - 1852
Elisha Otis -  Otis built the first modern passenger elevator which used his invention of a safety device which prevented the car from falling if the cables broke.

Gyroscope - 1852
French experimental physicist Leon Foucault - His gyroscope was a rapidly rotating disk with a heavy rim, mounted in low-friction gimbals

Airship - 1852
Jules Henri Giffard - French inventor. The hydrogen-filled airship was 43 m/144 ft long, had a 2,200-W/3-hp steam engine that drove a three-bladed propeller, and was steered using a sail like rudder. It flew at an average speed of 5 kph/3 mph

Pasteurization - 1856
Louis Pasteur developed Pasteurization, the process of heating milk to kill microscopic organisms

Internal Combustion Engine - 1859
The first commercially practical internal combustion engine was built by a French engineer, Jean Joseph also known as Etienne Lenoir. He simply modified a steam engine to suck in and ignite the inflammable gas from his gas lights.

Plastic - 1862
The first semi-synthetic plastic, Parkesine, made by Alexander Parkes from cellulose

Dynamite Invented - 1866
by -Swedish chemist Alfred Noble - patented in 1877

Typewriter - 1867
The first practical typewriting machine was conceived by three American inventors and friends.  Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samual W. Soule invented what they called the Type-Writer.

Telephone - 1876
Alexander Graham Bell

First Phonograph- 1877
Thomas Edison

Incandescent electric light - 1879
Thomas Edison - Contrary to popular belief, he didn't "invent" the lightbulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year-old idea.  Using lower current electricity, a small carbonized filament, and an improved vacuum inside the globe, he was able to produce a reliable, long-lasting source of light.

First Roller Coaster - 1884
La Marcus Thompson- Originally called "switchback railway" it debuted at Coney Island in New York. He received a patent for it a year later in 1885.

First Motorcycle - 1885
Gottlieb Daimler is credited with building the first motorcycle which was constructed mostly of wood, with the wheels being of the iron-banded wooden-spoked wagon-type. It was powered by a single-cylinder Otto-cycle engine.

Aspirin  - 1893
German chemist Felix Hoffam synthesized the acetyl derivative of salicylic acid, in response to the urging of his father, who took salicylic acid for rheumatism.

Radio - 1895
Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895

First Movie Theater opens - 1895
Auguste and Louis Lumiere - Paris France.

Pencil Sharpener Patented - 1897
John Lee Love - Fall River Massachusetts

Radium discovered - 1898
French scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the rare element as they tediously isolated one gram of radium salts from eight tons of pitchblende