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Benjamin Peck

Male 1740 - 1801  (61 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1744 
  • 1744: King George's War: French Colonies vs Great Britain 1744-1748.
1745 
  • 1745: E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
1752 
  • 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
1755 
  • 1755: Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
1756 
  • 1756: French and Indian War: also known as the Seven Years War. French Colonies vs Great Britain 1756-1763.
1757 
  • 1757: John Campbell invents the sextant.
1758 
  • 1758: Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
1759 
  • 1759: Cherokee War: English Colonists vs Cherokee Indians 1759-1761.
1760 
  • 1760: George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
10 1761 
  • 1761: Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
11 1764 
  • 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
12 1767 
  • 1767: Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
13 1768 
  • 1768: Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
14 1769 
  • 1769: James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
15 1774 
  • 1774: Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
16 1775 
  • 1775: American Revolution: English Colonists vs Great Britain 1775-1783.
  • 1775: Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
  • 1775: Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
17 1776 
  • 1776: USA: signing of the Declaration of Independence.
  • 1776: David Bushnell invents a submarine.
18 1779 
  • 1779: Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
19 1780 
  • 1780: Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
  • 1780: Gervinus invents the circular saw.
20 1783 
  • 1783: Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
  • 1783: Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
  • 1783: Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
  • 1783: Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
21 1784 
  • 1784: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
  • 1784: Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
22 1785 
  • 1785: Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
  • 1785: Blanchard invents a working parachute.
  • 1785: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
  • 1785: Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
23 1786 
  • 1786: John Fitch invents a steamboat.
24 1789 
  • 1789: George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
  • 1789: The guillotine is invented.
25 1790 
  • 1790: The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
26 1791 
  • 1791: John Barber invents the gas turbine.
  • 1791: Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
27 1792 
  • 1792: William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
  • 1792: The first ambulance.
28 1794 
  • 1794: Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
  • 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
29 1795 
  • 1795: Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
30 1796 
  • 1796: Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
31 1797 
  • 1797: A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
  • 1797: Wittemore patents a carding machine.
  • 1797: John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
32 1798 
  • 1798: Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
  • 1798: The first soft drink invented.
  • 1798: Franco-American Naval War: United States vs France 1798-1800.
33 1799 
  • 1799: Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
  • 1799: Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
34 1800 
  • 1800: Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
35 1801 
  • 1801: Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
  • 1801: USA: Tripolitan War 1801-1805. Barbary Wars: also fought in 1815. United States vs Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 1801-1805.