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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 1784 | - Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 1786 | - John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 5 | 1789 | - George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- The guillotine is invented.
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1791 | - Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
- John Barber invents the gas turbine.
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| 8 | 1792 | - The first ambulance.
- William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
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| 9 | 1794 | - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 10 | 1795 | - Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 11 | 1796 | - Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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| 12 | 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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| 13 | 1798 | - Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
- The first soft drink invented.
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| 14 | 1799 | - Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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| 15 | 1800 | - Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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| 16 | 1801 | - Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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| 17 | 1804 | - Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
- Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
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| 18 | 1806 | - A total eclipse of the sun occurred June 1*, 1806. It happened in the forenoon the great obscuration being between eleven and twelve o’clock, when everything had the appearance of night. The fowls hastened to their roosts; the chill of evening came on; and the stars were visible.
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| 19 | 1809 | - Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
- James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
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| 20 | 1810 | - German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
- May 1810 - Cuyahoga County organized.
- Peter Durand invents the tin can.
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| 21 | 1811 | - 25 Jan 1811 - Western boundary of Cuyahoga County defined.
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