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| 1 | 1783 | - 1783: Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
- 1783: Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
- 1783: Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
- 1783: Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
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| 2 | 1784 | - 1784: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- 1784: Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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| 3 | 1785 | - 1785: Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
- 1785: Blanchard invents a working parachute.
- 1785: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
- 1785: Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
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| 4 | 1786 | - 1786: John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 5 | 1789 | - 1789: George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- 1789: The guillotine is invented.
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| 6 | 1790 | - 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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| 7 | 1791 | - 1791: John Barber invents the gas turbine.
- 1791: Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
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| 8 | 1792 | - 1792: William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
- 1792: The first ambulance.
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| 9 | 1794 | - 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- 1794: Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 10 | 1795 | - 1795: Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 11 | 1796 | - 1796: Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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| 12 | 1797 | - 1797: John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
- 1797: A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
- 1797: Wittemore patents a carding machine.
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| 13 | 1798 | - 1798: Franco-American Naval War: United States vs France 1798-1800.
- 1798: Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
- 1798: The first soft drink invented.
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| 14 | 1799 | - 1799: Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- 1799: Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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| 15 | 1800 | - 1800: Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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| 16 | 1801 | - 1801: USA: Tripolitan War 1801-1805. Barbary Wars: also fought in 1815. United States vs Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 1801-1805.
- 1801: Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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| 17 | 1804 | - 1804: Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
- 1804: Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
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| 18 | 1809 | - 1809: James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
- 1809: Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
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| 19 | 1810 | - 1810: German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
- 1810: Peter Durand invents the tin can.
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| 20 | 1812 | - 1812: War of 1812: United States vs Great Britain 1812-1815.
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| 21 | 1813 | - 1813: Creek War: United States vs Creek Indians 1813-1814.
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| 22 | 1814 | - 1814: George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
- 1814: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
- 1814: German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
- 1814: The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
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| 23 | 1815 | - 1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
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| 24 | 1817 | - 1817: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
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| 25 | 1819 | - 1819: René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
- 1819: Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
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| 26 | 1820 | - 1820: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
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| 27 | 1823 | - 1823: Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
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| 28 | 1824 | - 1824: Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
- 1824: Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
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| 29 | 1825 | - 1825: John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
- 1825: William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
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| 30 | 1827 | - 1827: Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
- 1827: John Walker invents the modern matches.
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| 31 | 1829 | - 1829: Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837.
- 1829: William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
- 1829: Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing.
- 1829: American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
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| 32 | 1830 | - 1830: Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
- 1830: William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
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| 33 | 1831 | - 1831: American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
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| 34 | 1832 | - 1832: Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836.
- 1832: Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
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| 35 | 1834 | - 1834: Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
- 1834: Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
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| 36 | 1835 | - 1835: Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
- 1835: Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography.
- 1835: Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
- 1835: Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
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| 37 | 1836 | - 1836: Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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| 38 | 1837 | - 1837: Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
- 1837: Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
- 1837: English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
- 1837: Victoria. Ruler of England 1837-1901. House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort.
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1783 - 1837 (53 years)