Inventions Timeline

1687  Isaac Newton formulates his three laws of motion   

1698  steam engine was invented by Thomas Savery   

1700  Piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori   

1700  Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano   

1700  Christiaan Huygens conceives the internal combustion engine, but never actually builds one   

1701  english farmer Jethro Tull begins the mechanization of agriculture by inventing the horse-drawn seed drill.   

1703  gottfried Leibniz pioneers the binary number system now used in virtually all computers.   

1705  Steam piston engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen   

1710  Thermometer was invented by Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur   

1712  thomas Newcomen builds the first practical (but stationary) steam engine.   

1737  William Champion develops a commercially viable process for extracting zinc on a large scale   

1742  franklin stove was invented by Benjamin Franklin   

1751  Axel Cronstedt isolates nickel   

1752  Lightning rod was invented by Benjamin Franklin   

1756  Axel Cronstedt notices steam when he boils a rock—and discovers zeolites   

1757  John Campbell invents the sextant, an improved navigational device that enables sailors to measure latitude   

1767  spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves   

1769  Steam engine was invented by James Watt   

1769  Wolfgang von Kempelen develops a mechanical speaking machine: the world's first speech synthesizer   

1770  abraham Darby III builds a pioneering iron bridge at a place now called Ironbridge in England.   

1780  Josiah Wedgwood (or Thomas Massey) invents the pyrometer   

1783  parachute was invented by Jean Pierre Blanchard   

1783  Hot air balloon was invented by Montgolfier brothers   

1783  french Brothers Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier make the first practical hot-air balloon.   

1791  Steamboat was invented by John Fitch   

1791  Reverend William Gregor, a British clergyman and amateur geologist, discovers a mysterious mineral that he calls menachite. Four years later, Martin Klaproth gives it its modern name, titanium   

1798  vaccination was invented by Edward Jenner   

1800  italian Alessandro Volta makes the first battery (known as a Voltaic pile).   

1801  Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents the automated cloth-weaving loom. The punched cards it uses to store patterns help to inspire programmable computers   

1803  henry and Sealy Fourdrinier develop the papermaking machine.   

1804  locomotive was invented by Richard Trevithick   

1806  humphry Davy develops electrolysis into an important chemical technique and uses it to identify a number of new elements.   

1807  humphry Davy develops the electric arc lamp.   

1810  canned food is introduced.   

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