1700 - 1800 inventions and epidemics

By lainechappell

  • Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.

  • New York City yellow fever epidemic

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    St. Lawrence Valley smallpox epidemic

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    Iceland smallpox epidemic

  • Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.

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    Great Northern War plague outbreak (part of the second plague pandemic)

    Denmark, Sweden, Lithuania

  • Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.

  • Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.

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    North America measles epidemic

  • Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.

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    Great Plague of Marseille (part of the second plague pandemic)

  • French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.

  • Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.

  • John Kay invents the flying shuttle

  • E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.

  • Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod.

  • 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."

  • John Campbell invents the sextant.

  • Dolland invents a chromatic lens.

  • Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.

  • James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.

  • Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.

  • Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.

  • James Watt invents an improved steam engine.

  • Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.

  • Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.

    HE the real MVP

  • Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.

  • David Bushnell invents a submarine.

  • Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.

  • Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.

  • Gervinus invents the circular saw.

  • Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.

    yeet

  • Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.

  • Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.

  • Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production

  • Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.

  • Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.

  • Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.

  • Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.

  • Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.

  • Blanchard invents a working parachute.

  • John Fitch invents a steamboat.

  • The guillotine is invented.

    OFF WITH HIS HEADDDDDDDDDDD

  • The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.

  • John Barber invents the gas turbine.

  • Early bicycles invented in Scotland.

    i had no clue that they came from scotland or that someone even invented them. They just kinda appeared in America.

  • William Murdoch invents gas lighting.

  • The first ambulance.

    it did not go WEEE WOOOO WEEEEE WOOOOO *demon schreech *

  • Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.

    oh yea that dude........

  • Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.

    haha ball bearings

  • Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.

    OMG. Legit thought these just appeared too......

  • Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.

  • Wittemore patents a carding machine

  • A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.

    Thought it said latte at first.

  • The first soft drink invented.

    SODAAAAAA POPPPPPP

  • Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.

    have no clue what that is but it was important enough to get written down but not so important that it wasn't written down

  • Alessandro Volta invents the battery.

    if they could see us now

  • Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.

    could have just called it the paper machine