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| 1 | 1783 | - 1783: Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
- 1783: Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
- 1783: Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
- 1783: Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
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| 2 | 1784 | - 1784: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- 1784: Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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| 3 | 1785 | - 1785: Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
- 1785: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
- 1785: Blanchard invents a working parachute.
- 1785: Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
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| 4 | 1786 | - 1786: John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 5 | 1789 | - 1789: George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- 1789: The guillotine is invented.
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1791 | - 1791: John Barber invents the gas turbine.
- 1791: Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
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| 8 | 1792 | - 1792: William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
- 1792: The first ambulance.
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| 9 | 1794 | - 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- 1794: Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 10 | 1795 | - 1795: Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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1783 - 1795 (12 years)