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Mary ROBINSON
 1604 - 1655

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   Year  Event(s)
1608 
  • Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
1620 
  • The earliest human-powered submarine invented.
1624 
  • William Oughtred invents a slide ruler.
1625 
  • Charles I. Ruler of England 1625-1649. House of Stuart: Only surviving son of James I; beheaded Jan 30, 1649.
  • Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.
1629 
  • Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
1636 
  • W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
1642 
  • Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
1643 
  • Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
1649 
  • Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England 1649-1658. Commonwealth & Protectorate.
10 1650 
  • Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
11 1656 
  • Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
12 1658 
  • Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England 1658-1659. Commonwealth & Proctorate: 3rd son of Oliver. Resigned May 25, 1659.
13 1660 
  • Charles II. Ruler of England 1660-1685. House of Stuart (restored): Eldest son of Charles I, died without issue. De Jure King from Jan 30, 1649.
  • Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region.
14 1663 
  • James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
15 1668 
  • Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
16 1670 
  • Dom Pérignon invents Champagne.
  • The first reference to a candy cane is made.
17 1671 
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
18 1675 
  • Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch.
19 1676 
  • Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
20 1679 
  • Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
21 1685 
  • James II. Ruler of England 1685-1689. House of Stuart (restored): 2nd son of Charles I. Deposed 1688, interregnum Dec 11, 1688, to Feb 13, 1689.
22 1689 
  • William III and Mary II. Rulers of England 1689-1702. House of Stuart (restored): Son of William, Prince of Orange, by Mary, daughter of Charles I. Mary eldest daughter of James II. She died 1694.
23 1698 
  • Englishman, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
24 1701 
  • Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
25 1702 
  • Anne. Ruler of England 1702-1714. House of Stuart (restored): 2nd daughter of James II. Died with no living heirs.
26 1709 
  • Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
27 1711 
  • Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
28 1712 
  • Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.
29 1714 
  • George I. Ruler of England 1714-1727. House of Hanover: Son of Elector of Hanover, by Sohia, grand-daughter of James I. Proclaimed King under Act of Settlement.
30 1717 
  • Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
31 1722 
  • French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.
32 1724 
  • Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
33 1727 
  • George II. Ruler of England 1727-1760. House of Hanover: Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg.
34 1733 
  • John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
35 1745 
  • E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
36 1752 
  • Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
37 1755 
  • Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
38 1757 
  • John Campbell invents the sextant.
39 1758 
  • Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
40 1760 
  • George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
41 1761 
  • Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
42 1764 
  • James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
43 1767 
  • Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
44 1768 
  • Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
45 1769 
  • James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
46 1774 
  • Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
47 1775 
  • Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
  • Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
48 1776 
  • David Bushnell invents a submarine.
  • July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence
49 1779 
  • Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
50 1780 
  • Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
  • Gervinus invents the circular saw.
51 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.
52 1784 
  • Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
  • Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
53 1785 
  • Blanchard invents a working parachute.
  • Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
  • Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
  • Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
54 1786 
  • John Fitch invents a steamboat.
55 1789 
  • George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
  • The guillotine is invented.
56 1790 
  • The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
57 1791 
  • Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
  • John Barber invents the gas turbine.
58 1792 
  • The first ambulance.
  • William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
59 1794 
  • Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
  • Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
60 1795 
  • Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
61 1796 
  • Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
62 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.
63 1798 
  • Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
  • The first soft drink invented.
64 1799 
  • Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
  • Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
65 1800 
  • Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
66 1801 
  • Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
67 1804 
  • Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
  • Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
68 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.
69 1809 
  • Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
  • James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
70 1810 
  • German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
  • May 1810 - Cuyahoga County organized.
  • Peter Durand invents the tin can.

  
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