| 1701 |
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| 1709 |
- Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
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| 1711 |
- Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
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| 1712 |
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| 1717 |
- Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
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| 1722 |
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| 1724 |
- Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
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| 1733 |
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| 1745 |
- E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
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| 1752 |
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| 1755 |
- Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary on April 15th after nine years of writing. In the preface Samuel Johnson wrote, "I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven."
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| 1757 |
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| 1758 |
- Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
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| 1761 |
- Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
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| 1764 |
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| 1767 |
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| 1768 |
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| 1769 |
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| 1774 |
- Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
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| 1775 |
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| 1776 |
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| 1779 |
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| 1780 |
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| 1783 |
- Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
- Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
- Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
- Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
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| 1784 |
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| 1785 |
- Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
- Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
- Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
- Blanchard invents a working parachute.
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| 1786 |
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| 1789 |
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| 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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| 1791 |
- John Barber invents the gas turbine.
- Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
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| 1792 |
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| 1794 |
- Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 1795 |
- Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 1796 |
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| 1797 |
- Wittemore patents a carding machine.
- A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
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| 1798 |
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| 1799 |
- Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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