Inventions and Inventors of the 18th Century

Inventions and Inventors of the 18th Century. Made by Kateryna Sotnyk2022

1701 Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.

1709 Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.

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 lightning rod.

1757 John Campbell invents the sextant.

1758 Dolland invents a chromatic lens.

1761 Englishmen John Harrison invents the navigational clock

1764 James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.

1767 Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water

1769 James Watt invents an improved steam engine.

1774 Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.

1776 David Bushnell invents a submarine.

1780 Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal eyeglasses.

1783 Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.

1784 Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.

1785 Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.

1786 John Fitch invents the steamboat.

1791 John Barber invents the gas turbine.

1794 Welshmen Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.

1799 Alessandro Volta invents the battery.