Industrial Revolution Timeline

1701	Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
1709	Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
1711	Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
1712	Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.
1717	Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
1722	French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.
1724	Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
1733	John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
1745	E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
1752	Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
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."
1757	John Campbell invents the sextant.
1758	Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
1761	Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
1764	James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
1767	Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
1768	Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
1769	James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
1774	Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
1775	Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet. Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
1776	David Bushnell invents a submarine.
1779	Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
1780	Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses. Gervinus invents the circular saw.
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.
1784	Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine. Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
1785	Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom. Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching. Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance. Blanchard invents a working parachute.
1786	John Fitch invents a steamboat.
1789	The guillotine is invented.
1790	The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
1791	John Barber invents the gas turbine. Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
1792	William Murdoch invents gas lighting. The first ambulance.
1794	Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin. Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
1795	Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
1796	Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
1797	Wittemore patents a carding machine. A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
1798	The first soft drink invented. Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
1799	Alessandro Volta invents the battery. Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.

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