♂ Charles Hicks

1806 - 1879

Charles Hicks
Spouse
Catherine Van Norden
Catherine Van Norden
1811 - 1903
Children
Thomas R Hicks
Thomas R Hicks
1829 - 1908
Josephine Hicks
Josephine Hicks
1835 - 1921
Walter E Hicks
Walter E Hicks
1847 - 1892
Jessie Hicks
Jessie Hicks
1849 - 1875

Was inventor of the first percussion caps, the machine for making them and the powder with which they were charged.  At the time of his death he had almost perfected the Hick's Centrifugal Dynamite Gun.  His son, Walter E Hicks, would patent the Centrifugal Gun in 1888 after Charles Hicks had passed away.

 

Timeline

1840


Age: 33y
Charles Hicks - 1840 Census

residence


In the two houses behind Charles Hicks, there is a Mrs. Van Norden aged 20-30, and then a Wm A Van Norden aged 40-50 years. Also living on the same page as Charles Hicks is an Abraham Van Norden. William Van Norden's brother James is also living in ward 14, on page 418. modified
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1840 August Borsig's steam locomotive, the first built in Germany, competes against a Stephenson-built locomotive on the Berlin-Jüterbog railroad; the Borsig locomotive wins by 10 minutes.
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1844


Age: 37y
1844 • The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England.

1847


Age: 40y
1847 • The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the railroad town of Goldsborough, and the Wayne county seat is moved to the new town.

1850


Age: 43y
1850 • The Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX and future Pope Pius X .
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1850


Age: 43y
1850 University of Rochester is founded in Rochester, NY.

1850


Age: 43y
1850 • The temperance organisation, International Organisation of Good Templars, is established in Utica, New York, as the order of the Knights of Jericho.
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1851


Age: 44y
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1854


Age: 47y

1857


Feb 10
Age: 51y

invention


Haverstraw, New York, USA ⇓
US Patent for "Improved machine for ramming percussion-caps"
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1857 Kuala Lumpur, the future capital of Malaysia, is founded as a tin mining settlement.

1857


Feb 17
Age: 51y

invention


Haverstraw, New York, USA ⇓
US Patent for "Improved machine for varnishing percussion-caps"
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1860


Age: 53y
1860 South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States Union.

1870


Jul 16
Age: 64y
1870 • A plebiscite held in Rome supports, by 133,681 votes to 1,507, the annexation of the city by Italy.

1879


Oct 31
Age: 73y
Charles Hicks - Find a Grave

death


Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓
1879-11-03; Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
"HICKS - On October 31st ult., CHARLES HICKS, in the seventy-third year of his age. The relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Monday, November 3, at 2 o'clock, from 1912 Poplar street."
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1879 • The Hall effect is discovered by Dr. Edwin Hall.

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