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Year |
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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 1786 | - John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 3 | 1789 | - George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- The guillotine is invented.
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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 1791 | - Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
- John Barber invents the gas turbine.
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| 6 | 1792 | - The first ambulance.
- William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
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| 7 | 1794 | - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 8 | 1795 | - Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 9 | 1796 | - Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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| 10 | 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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