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| 1  | 1769  | - James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
 
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| 2  | 1774  | - Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
 
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| 3  | 1775  | - Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
 
- Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
 
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| 4  | 1776  | - David Bushnell invents a submarine.
 
- July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence
 
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| 5  | 1779  | - Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
 
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| 6  | 1780  | - Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
 
- Gervinus invents the circular saw.
 
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| 7  | 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.
 
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| 8  | 1784  | - Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
 
- Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
 
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| 9  | 1785  | - Blanchard invents a working parachute.
 
- Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
 
- Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
 
- Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
 
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| 10  | 1786  | - John Fitch invents a steamboat.
 
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| 11  | 1789  | - George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
 
- The guillotine is invented.
 
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| 12  | 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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| 13  | 1791  | - Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
 
- John Barber invents the gas turbine.
 
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| 14  | 1792  | - The first ambulance.
 
- William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
 
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| 15  | 1794  | - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
 
- Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
 
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| 16  | 1795  | - Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
 
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| 17  | 1796  | - Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
 
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| 18  | 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.
 
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| 19  | 1798  | - Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
 
- The first soft drink invented.
 
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| 20  | 1799  | - Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
 
- Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
 
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| 21  | 1800  | - Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
 
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| 22  | 1801  | - Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
 
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| 23  | 1804  | - Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
 
- Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
 
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| 24  | 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.
 
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| 25  | 1809  | - Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
 
- James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
 
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| 26  | 1810  | - German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
 
- May 1810 - Cuyahoga County organized.
 
- Peter Durand invents the tin can.
 
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| 27  | 1811  | - 25 Jan 1811 - Western boundary of Cuyahoga County defined.
 
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| 28  | 1812  | - 18 Jun 1812 - War declared by the United States against the King of Great Britain.  The war known as 'The War of 1812'.
 
- 26 Jun 1812 - Hanging of the Indian 'Omic' in Cleveland.
 
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