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| 1 | 1774 | Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
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| 2 | 1775 | Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
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| 3 | 1776 | David Bushnell invents a submarine.July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence
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| 4 | 1779 | Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
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| 5 | 1780 | Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.Gervinus invents the circular saw.
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1784 | Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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| 8 | 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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| 9 | 1786 | John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 10 | 1789 | George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.The guillotine is invented.
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| 11 | 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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| 12 | 1791 | Early bicycles invented in Scotland.John Barber invents the gas turbine.
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| 13 | 1792 | The first ambulance.William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
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| 14 | 1794 | Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 15 | 1795 | Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 16 | 1796 | Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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| 17 | 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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| 18 | 1798 | Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.The first soft drink invented.
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| 19 | 1799 | Alessandro Volta invents the battery.Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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| 20 | 1800 | Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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