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Date |
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| 1 | 1784 | - 1784: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- 1784: Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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| 2 | 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.
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| 3 | 1786 | - 1786: John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 4 | 1789 | - 1789: George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- 1789: The guillotine is invented.
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| 5 | 1790 | - 1790: The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
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| 6 | 1791 | - 1791: John Barber invents the gas turbine.
- 1791: Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
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1784 - 1791 (6 years)