Inventions Timeline

1687  Isaac Newton formulates his three laws of motion  

1698  Steam engine was invented by Thomas Savery  

1700  Piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori  

1700  Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano  

1700  Christiaan Huygens conceives the internal combustion engine, but never actually builds one  

1701  english farmer Jethro Tull begins the mechanization of agriculture by inventing the horse-drawn seed drill.  

1703  Gottfried Leibniz pioneers the binary number system now used in virtually all computers  

1705  Steam piston engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen  

1710  thermometer was invented by Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur  

1712  Thomas Newcomen builds the first practical (but stationary) steam engine  

1737  William Champion develops a commercially viable process for extracting zinc on a large scale  

1742  franklin stove was invented by Benjamin Franklin  

1751  Axel Cronstedt isolates nickel  

1752  lightning rod was invented by Benjamin Franklin  

1756  axel Cronstedt notices steam when he boils a rock—and discovers zeolites.  

1757  john Campbell invents the sextant, an improved navigational device that enables sailors to measure latitude  

1767  Spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves  

1769  Steam engine was invented by James Watt  

1769  Wolfgang von Kempelen develops a mechanical speaking machine: the world's first speech synthesizer  

1770  abraham Darby III builds a pioneering iron bridge at a place now called Ironbridge in England.  

1780  Josiah Wedgwood (or Thomas Massey) invents the pyrometer  

1783  Parachute was invented by Jean Pierre Blanchard  

1783  hot air balloon was invented by Montgolfier brothers  

1783  french Brothers Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier make the first practical hot-air balloon.  

1791  Steamboat was invented by John Fitch  

1791  reverend William Gregor, a British clergyman and amateur geologist, discovers a mysterious mineral that he calls menachite. Four years later, Martin Klaproth gives it its modern name, titanium.  

1798  Vaccination was invented by Edward Jenner  

1800  italian Alessandro Volta makes the first battery (known as a Voltaic pile).  

1801  joseph-Marie Jacquard invents the automated cloth-weaving loom. The punched cards it uses to store patterns help to inspire programmable computers.  

1803  henry and Sealy Fourdrinier develop the papermaking machine.  

1804  locomotive was invented by Richard Trevithick  

1806  humphry Davy develops electrolysis into an important chemical technique and uses it to identify a number of new elements.  

1807  Humphry Davy develops the electric arc lamp  

1810  Canned food is introduced  

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