Inventions Between 1700-1920

By cmansfield
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    Invention timeline

  • Seed Drill.

    Seed Drill.
    Made in 1701 by Jethro Tull.

  • Smelting iron.

    Smelting iron.
    Abraham Darby

  • Piano

    Piano
    Bartolomeo Cristofori

  • Tuning fork

    Tuning fork
    John Shore

  • Diving Bell

    Diving Bell
    Edward Halley

  • Fire extinguisher.

    Fire extinguisher.
    French C. Hopffer.

  • Thermometer

    Thermometer
    Gabriel Farenheit.

  • Flying shuttle

    Flying shuttle
    John Kay

  • Electrical capacitor

    E,G. von Kleist

  • Lightning rod

    Benjamin Franklin

  • English language dictionary

    Samuel Johnson

  • Marine Chromometer

    John Harrison

  • Spinning jenny

    James Hargreaves

  • Steam Engine

    James Watt

  • Flushing toilet

    Alexander Cummings

  • Spinning Mule

    Samuel Crompton

  • Bi-Focal Glasses

    Benjamin Franklin

  • Cotton gin

    Eli Whitney

  • Smallpox vaccine

    Edward Jenner

  • Battery

    Count Alessandro Volta

  • Steamboat service

    Robert Fulton

  • Stethascope.

    Rene Laennec

  • Revolver

    Samuel Colt

  • Bicycle

    Kirkpatric Macmillan

  • Blueprint

    John Herschel

  • Washing Machine

    Hamilton Smith

  • Barbed wire

    Joseph Glidden

  • Induction Electric Motor

    Nicola Tesla

  • Diesel engine

    Rudolf Diesel

  • Teabags

    Thomas Sullivan

  • First piloted helecopter

    Paul Cornu