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Benjamin Franklin publishes New Experiments and Observations on Electricity
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Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod
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Samuel Johnson publishes the first English dictionary
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The British empire starts
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John Campbell invents the sextant
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Dolland invents the chromatic lens
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John Harrison invents the navigational clock
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James Watt invents the improved steam engine
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James Cook discovers new South Wales
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Joseph Priestly discovers oxygen
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Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal eyeglasses
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John Stringfellow invents the British airplane
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