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Year |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1775 | - Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
- Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
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| 2 | 1776 | - David Bushnell invents a submarine.
- July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence
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| 3 | 1779 | - Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
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| 4 | 1780 | - Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
- Gervinus invents the circular saw.
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 1784 | - Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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