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18th-century inventors (11 C, 4 P) Pages in category "18th-century inventions" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
18th century: of the horse-drawn hoe and scarifier by Jethro Tull [2] [3] [4] 1780s: Selective breeding and artificial selection pioneered by Robert Bakewell (1725–1795). [5] 1842: Superphosphate or chemical fertilizer developed by John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900). [6] 1850s: Steam-driven ploughing engine invented by John Fowler (1826–1864). [7]
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or ... 18th century 1700s. 1709: Bartolomeo ... created by Alan Emtage a student ...
18th-century Swiss inventors (4 P) Pages in category "18th-century inventors" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
In the 18th century, innovations like steamboats, railroads, and guns increased demand for wrought iron and steel. The Mount Savage Iron Works in Maryland was the largest in the United States in the late 1840s, and the first in the nation to produce heavy rails for the construction of railroads.
The spinning wheel was also a precursor to the spinning jenny, which was a key development during the early Industrial Revolution in the 18th century. [37] After translating the works of Hero of Alexandria, by Qusta ibn Luqa, the earliest programmable machines were developed in the Muslim world.
Before the 18th century, the manufacture of cloth was performed by individual workers, in the premises in which they lived and goods were transported around the country by packhorses or by river navigations and contour-following canals that had been constructed in the early 18th century. In the mid-18th century, artisans were inventing ways to ...
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