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| 1  | 1784  | - Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
 
- Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
 
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| 2  | 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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| 3  | 1786  | - John Fitch invents a steamboat.
 
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| 4  | 1789  | - George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
 
- The guillotine is invented.
 
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| 5  | 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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| 6  | 1791  | - Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
 
- John Barber invents the gas turbine.
 
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| 7  | 1792  | - The first ambulance.
 
- William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
 
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| 8  | 1794  | - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
 
- Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
 
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| 9  | 1795  | - Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
 
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| 10  | 1796  | - Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
 
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| 11  | 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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