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   Date  Event(s)
1 1752 
  • Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
2 1755 
  • Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
3 1756 
  • French and Indian War: also known as the Seven Years War. French Colonies vs Great Britain 1756-1763.
4 1757 
  • John Campbell invents the sextant.
5 1758 
  • Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
6 1759 
  • Cherokee War: English Colonists vs Cherokee Indians 1759-1761.
7 1760 
  • George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
8 1761 
  • Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
9 1764 
  • James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
10 1767 
  • Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
11 1768 
  • Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
12 1769 
  • James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
13 1774 
  • Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
14 1775 
  • American Revolution: English Colonists vs Great Britain 1775-1783.
  • Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
  • Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
15 1776 
  • USA: signing of the Declaration of Independence.
  • David Bushnell invents a submarine.
16 1779 
  • Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
17 1780 
  • Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
  • Gervinus invents the circular saw.
18 1783 
  • Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
  • Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
  • Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
  • Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
19 1784 
  • Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
  • Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
20 1785 
  • Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
  • Blanchard invents a working parachute.
  • Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
  • Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
21 1786 
  • John Fitch invents a steamboat.
22 1789 
  • George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
  • The guillotine is invented.
23 1790 
  • The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
24 1791 
  • John Barber invents the gas turbine.
  • Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
25 1792 
  • William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
  • The first ambulance.
26 1794 
  • Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
  • Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
27 1795 
  • Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
28 1796 
  • Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
29 1797 
  • John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
  • A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
  • Wittemore patents a carding machine.
30 1798 
  • Franco-American Naval War: United States vs France 1798-1800.
  • Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
  • The first soft drink invented.
31 1799 
  • Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
  • Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
32 1800 
  • Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.


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