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•Jethro Tull
invents the seed drill.
Th e seed drill was invented to make planting more easier as well as making it quicker -
•Bartolomeo Cristofori
invents the piano. -
•Englishmen, John Shore
vents the tuning fork. -
•Thomas Newcomen
patents the atmospheric steam engine. -
•Edmond Halley
invents the diving bell. -
•French C. Hopffer
patents the fire extinguisher. -
•Gabriel Fahrenheit
invents the first mercury thermometer. -
•John Kay
invents the flying shuttle. -
•E.G. von Kleist
invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor. -
•Benjamin Franklin
invents the lightening rod. -
•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." -
•John Campbell
invents the sextant. -
•Dolland
invents a chromatic lens. -
•Englishmen, John Harrison
invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude. -
•James Hargreaves
invents the spinning jenny. -
•Joseph Priestley
invents carbonated water - soda water -
•Richard Arkwright
patents the spinning frame. -
•James Watt
invents an improved steam engine. -
•Georges Louis Lesage
patents the electric telegraph. -
•Alexander Cummings
invents the flush toilet -
jacques Perrier
invents a steamship. -
•David Bushnell
invents a submarine. -
•Samuel Crompton
ts the spinning mule. -
•Benjamin Franklin
invents bi-focal eyeglasses. -
•Gervinus
invents the circular saw. -
•Louis Sebastien
demonstrates the first parachute. -
•Benjamin Hanks
patents the self-winding clock -
•The Montgolfier brothers
invent the hot-air balloon. -
•Englishmen, Henry Cort
invents the steel roller for steel production. -
•Andrew Meikle
invents the threshing machine. -
•Joseph Bramah
invents the safety lock. -
•Edmund Cartwright
•Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom. -
•Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching
•Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching -
•Charles Augustus Coulomb
•Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance. -
•Jean Pierre Blanchard
•Jean Pierre Blanchard invents a working parachute. -
•John Fitch
•John Fitch invents a steamboat. -
•The guillotine
•The guillotine is invented. -
•The United States
•The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton. -
•John Barber
•John Barber invents the gas turbine. Early bicycles invented in Scotland. -
•William Murdoch
•William Murdoch invents gas lighting. -
the first ambulance.
the first ambulance. -
•Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
•Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin. -
•Welshmen, Philip Vaughan
•Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings. -
•Francois Appert
•Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food. -
•Edward Jenner
•Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination. -
•Wittemore
•Wittemore patents a carding machine. -
•A British inventor, Henry Maudslay
•A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe -
•The first soft drink invented.
•The first soft drink invented. -
•Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
•Aloys Senefelder invents lithography. -
•Alessandro Volta
•Alessandro Volta invents the battery. -
•Louis Robert
•Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.