Editing 1785 in science (section)

==Technology==
* [[Lionel Lukin]] [[patent]]s a [[Lifeboat (rescue)|rescue lifeboat]] in [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]].
* Approximate date – American inventor [[Oliver Evans]] erects a fully automated [[flour mill]] capable of operating continuously through the pioneering use of [[bulk material handling]] devices including [[bucket elevator]]s, [[conveyor belt]]s, and [[Archimedean screw]]s at [[Greenbank Historic Area|Greenbank Mill]], in [[New Castle County, Delaware]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Evans|first=Oliver|author2=Evans, Thomas Ellicott Cadwallader|title=The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide|edition=12th|publisher=Lea & Blanchard|year=1848|page=[https://archive.org/details/youngmillwright00jonegoog/page/n210 204]|url=https://archive.org/details/youngmillwright00jonegoog}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Invention in the United States 1790-1865|last=Thomson|first=Ross|year=2009|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore, MD|isbn=978-0-8018-9141-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/structuresofchan0000thom}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=73000513}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Greenbank Historic Area|first1=Rosemary|last1=Troy|first2=Graydon|last2=Wood|publisher=[[National Park Service]]|date=June 1972}}</ref> – "He practically invented the modern science of handling materials."<ref>{{Roe1916}}.</ref>