1701 |
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1709 |
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Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
|
1711 |
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Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning
fork.
|
1712 |
|
1717 |
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Edmond Halley invents the diving
bell.
|
1722 |
|
1724 |
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Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first
mercury thermometer.
|
1733 |
|
1745 |
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E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden
jar, the first electrical capacitor.
|
1752 |
|
1755 |
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Samuel Johnson publishes the first English
language dictionary on April 15th after nine years of writing. In
the preface Samuel Johnson wrote, "I am not so lost in
lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that
things are the sons of heaven."
|
1757 |
|
1758 |
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Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
|
1761 |
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Englishmen, John Harrison invents the
navigational clock or marine
chronometer for measuring longitude.
|
1764 |
|
1767 |
|
1768 |
|
1769 |
|
1774 |
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Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric
telegraph.
|
1775 |
|
1776 |
|
1779 |
|
1780 |
|
1783 |
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Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first
parachute.
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Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding
clock.
-
Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques
Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
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Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel
roller for steel production.
|
1784 |
|
1785 |
-
Edmund Cartwright invents the power
loom.
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Claude Berthollet invents chemical
bleaching.
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Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the
torsion
balance.
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Blanchard invents a working parachute.
|
1786 |
|
1789 |
|
1790 |
-
The United States issued its first
patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves
and spins cotton.
|
1791 |
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John Barber invents the gas turbine.
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Early bicycles
invented in Scotland.
|
1792 |
|
1794 |
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Eli Whitney patents the cotton
gin.
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Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball
bearings.
|
1795 |
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Francois Appert invents the preserving
jar for food.
|
1796 |
|
1797 |
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Wittemore patents a carding machine.
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A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents
the first metal or precision lathe.
|
1798 |
|
1799 |
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Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
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Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier
Machine for sheet paper making.
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