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Year |
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1 | 1767 | - Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
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2 | 1768 | - Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
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3 | 1769 | - James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
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4 | 1774 | - Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
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5 | 1775 | - Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
- Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
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6 | 1776 | - David Bushnell invents a submarine.
- July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence
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7 | 1779 | - Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
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8 | 1780 | - Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
- Gervinus invents the circular saw.
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9 | 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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10 | 1784 | - Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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11 | 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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12 | 1786 | - John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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