Editing Timeline of historic inventions (section)

===18th century===

====1700s====
* '''1709:''' [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]] crafts the first [[piano]].
* '''1709:''' [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] invents the alcohol [[thermometer]].

====1710s====
* '''1712:''' [[Thomas Newcomen]] builds the first commercial steam engine to pump water out of mines.<ref name="McNeil1990">{{cite book |title=An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology |last=McNeil |first=Ian |year=1990 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=0-415-14792-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780415147927}}</ref> Newcomen's engine, unlike [[Thomas Savery]]'s, uses a piston.

====1730s====
* '''1730:''' [[Thomas Godfrey (inventor)|Thomas Godfrey]] and [[John Hadley]] independently develop the [[Octant (instrument)|octant]]
* '''1733:''' [[John Kay (flying shuttle)|John Kay]] enables one person to operate a loom with the [[flying shuttle]]<ref name="Lord1903">{{cite book |title=Memoir of John Kay, of Bury: Inventory of the Fly-Shuttle |last=Lord |first=John |year=1903 |publisher=J. Clegg |location=Rochdale |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=POgEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22john%20kay%22%20loom&pg=PA5}}</ref>
* '''1738:''' [[Lewis Paul]] and [[John Wyatt (inventor)|John Wyatt]] invent the first [[Paul-Wyatt cotton mills|mechanized cotton spinning machine]].

====1740s====
* '''1742:''' [[Benjamin Franklin]] invents the [[Franklin stove]].
* '''1745:''' [[Pieter van Musschenbroek|Musschenbroek]] and [[Ewald Georg von Kleist|Kleist]] independently develop the [[Leyden jar]], an early form of [[capacitor]].
* '''1746:''' [[John Roebuck]] invents the [[lead chamber process]].

====1750s====
* '''1752:''' [[Benjamin Franklin]] invents the [[lightning rod]].
* '''1755:''' [[William Cullen]] invents the first artificial [[refrigeration]] machine.

====1760s====
* '''1760:''' [[John Joseph Merlin]] invents the first  [[Roller skates]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pollak |first=Michael |date=2015-04-24 |title=The History of Roller Skates |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/nyregion/the-history-of-roller-skates.html |access-date=2023-04-11 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> 
* '''1764:''' [[James Hargreaves]] invents the [[spinning jenny]].
* '''1765:''' [[James Watt]] invents the improved [[steam engine]] utilizing a separate condenser.
* '''1767:''' [[Joseph Priestley]] invents a method for the production of [[carbonated water]].
* '''1769:''' [[Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot]] invents the first steam-powered vehicle capable of carrying passengers, an early [[car]].

====1770s====
* '''1770:''' [[Richard Salter (inventor)|Richard Salter]] invents the earliest known design for a [[weighing scale]].
* '''1774:''' [[John Wilkinson (industrialist)|John Wilkinson]] invents his [[boring (manufacturing)|boring]] machine, considered by some to be the first [[machine tool]].
* '''1775:''' [[Jesse Ramsden]] invents the modern [[screw-cutting lathe]].
* '''1776:''' [[John Wilkinson (industrialist)|John Wilkinson]] invents a mechanical [[air compressor]] that would become the prototype for all later mechanical compressors.
* '''1778:''' [[Robert Barron (locksmith)|Robert Barron]] invents the first [[lever tumbler lock]].

====1780s====
*'''1780:''' [[Hyder Ali]] of [[Kingdom of Mysore|Mysore]], India develops the first [[Mysorean rockets|metal-cylinder rockets]].<ref name="Roddam">{{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/37179995 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727034357/https://www.nal.res.in/pdf/pdfrocket.pdf |title=Rockets in Mysore and Britain, 1750–1850 A.D. |last=Narasimha |first=Roddam |date=27 July 2011 |archive-date=27 July 2011 |publisher=National Aeronautical Laboratory and Indian Institute of Science.}}</ref>
* '''1783:''' [[Claude de Jouffroy]] builds the first [[steamboat]].
* '''1783:''' [[Montgolfier brothers|Joseph-Ralf]] and [[Montgolfier brothers|Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier]] build the first manned [[hot air balloon]].
* '''1783:''' [[Louis-Sébastien Lenormand]] invents and uses the first modern [[parachute]].
* '''1785:''' [[Martinus van Marum]] is the first to use the [[electrolysis]] technique.
* '''1786:''' [[Andrew Meikle]] invents the [[threshing machine]].
* '''1789:''' [[Edmund Cartwright]] invents the [[power loom]].

====1790s====
* '''1790:''' [[Thomas Saint]] invents the [[sewing machine]].
* '''1792:''' [[Claude Chappe]] invents the modern semaphore [[telegraph]].
* '''1793:''' [[Eli Whitney]] invents the modern [[cotton gin]].
* '''1795:''' [[Joseph Bramah]] invents the [[hydraulic press]].
* '''1796:''' [[Alois Senefelder]] invents the [[lithography]] printing technique.<ref name="meggspage146">Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998. p 146 {{ISBN|0-471-29198-6}}</ref>
* '''1797:''' [[Samuel Bentham]] invents [[plywood]].
* '''1799:''' [[George Medhurst]] invents the first motorized [[air compressor]].
* '''1799:''' The first [[paper machine]] is invented by [[Louis-Nicolas Robert]].