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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 1786 | - 1786: John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 3 | 1789 | - 1789: George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- 1789: The guillotine is invented.
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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 1791 | - 1791: John Barber invents the gas turbine.
- 1791: Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
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| 6 | 1792 | - 1792: The first ambulance.
- 1792: William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
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| 7 | 1794 | - 1794: Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
- 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
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| 8 | 1795 | - 1795: Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 9 | 1796 | - 1796: Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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| 10 | 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.
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| 11 | 1798 | - 1798: Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
- 1798: The first soft drink invented.
- 1798: Franco-American Naval War: United States vs France 1798-1800.
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| 12 | 1799 | - 1799: Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
- 1799: Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
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| 13 | 1800 | - 1800: Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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| 14 | 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.
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Abt 1785 - 1803 (18 years)