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  2. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    3.3.1 1700s. 3.3.2 1710s. ... The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of ... Safety lamps based on Clanny's improved design were used until the ...

  3. Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) - Wikipedia

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    The rights to the invention were sold for $400. [108] 1850 Dishwasher. The dishwasher cleans dishes, glassware, and eating utensils. The first dishwasher was a wooden one whereby a person would turn a handle to splash water on the dishware. It was invented in 1850 by Joel Houghton of Ogden, New York. The device was a failure. [109]

  4. List of British innovations and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.

  5. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    1800: Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery 1804: Thomas Young: Wave theory of light, Vision and color theory: 1808: Atomic theory by John Dalton: 1816: English inventor Francis Ronalds built the first working electric telegraph: 1820: Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted accidentally discovered that an electric field ...

  6. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, prices of raw cotton rose. British production grew from 2 million pounds in 1700 to 5 million pounds in 1781 to 56 million in 1800. [179] The invention of the cotton gin by American Eli Whitney in 1792 was the decisive event.

  7. 17th century - Wikipedia

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    1.2 1651–1700. 2 Gallery. 3 Inventions, ... European politics were increasingly dominated by the Kingdom of France ... Some of the greatest inventions took place in ...

  8. Science in the Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    National scientific societies were founded throughout the Enlightenment era in the urban hotbeds of scientific development across Europe. In the 17th century the Royal Society of London (1662), the Paris Académie Royale des Sciences (1666), and the Berlin Akademie der Wissenschaften (1700) were founded.

  9. 18th century - Wikipedia

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    Political boundaries at the beginning of year 1700 Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789, an iconic event of the French Revolution. Development of the Watt steam engine in the late 18th century was an important element in the Industrial Revolution in Europe.