Unique information of the inventions of the 18th Century

An 18th Century Invention - James Hargreaves' Spinning Jenny

The 18th century (also referred to as the 1700s) began the first Industrial Revolution[/link">. Modern manufacturing began with steam engines replacing animal labor. The 18th century saw the widespread replacement of manual labor by new inventions and machinery.
The 18th century was also part of the "The Age of Enlightenment", an historical period characterized by a change away from traditional religious sources of authority, and a move towards science and rational thought.
The effects of 18th century enlightenment led to the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution.The 18th century saw the spread of capitalism and the increased availability of printed materials.

• 1700 - 1750
• 1751 - 1799

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.

• 1700 - 1750
• 1751 - 1799

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.
• The Montgolfier brothers 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.
• Jean Pierre 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.

An 18th century invention, the cotton gin is a machine that separates seeds, hulls from cotton after it has been picked.