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1701
1709
  • Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
1711
  • Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
1712
1717
  • Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
1722
1724
  • Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
1733
1745
  • E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
1752
1755
  • 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
  • John Campbell invents the sextant
1758
  • Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
1761
  • Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
1764
1767
1768
1769
1774
  • Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
1775
1776
1779
1780
1783
  • Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
  • Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
  • Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
  • Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
1784
1785
  • Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
  • Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
  • Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
  • 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
  • John Barber invents the gas turbine.
  • Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
1792
1794
  • Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
  • Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
1795
  • Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
1796
1797
  • Wittemore patents a carding machine.
  • A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
1798
1799
  • Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
  • Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.

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