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Year |
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| 1 | 1755 | - Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
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| 2 | 1757 | - John Campbell invents the sextant.
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| 3 | 1758 | - Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
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| 4 | 1760 | - George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
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| 5 | 1761 | - Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
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| 6 | 1764 | - James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
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| 7 | 1767 | - Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
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| 8 | 1768 | - Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
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| 9 | 1769 | - James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
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| 10 | 1774 | - Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
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| 11 | 1775 | - Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
- Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
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| 12 | 1776 | - David Bushnell invents a submarine.
- July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence
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| 13 | 1779 | - Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
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| 14 | 1780 | - Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
- Gervinus invents the circular saw.
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| 15 | 1783 | - Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
- Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
- Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
- Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
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| 16 | 1784 | - Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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| 17 | 1785 | - Blanchard invents a working parachute.
- Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
- Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
- Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
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| 18 | 1786 | - John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 19 | 1789 | - George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- The guillotine is invented.
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| 20 | 1790 | - The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
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| 21 | 1791 | - Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
- John Barber invents the gas turbine.
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| 22 | 1792 | - The first ambulance.
- William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
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| 23 | 1794 | - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 24 | 1795 | - Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 25 | 1796 | - Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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| 26 | 1797 | - A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
- John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
- Wittemore patents a carding machine.
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| 27 | 1798 | - Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
- The first soft drink invented.
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| 28 | 1799 | - Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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