Modern Ages Inventions

1500  The first flush toilets appeared.

 Leonardo da Vinci designs a horizontal water wheel.

1510  Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein.

1513  Urs Graf invents etching.

1568  Bottled beer invented in London.

 Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound

1590 microscope.

 Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.

1608
 The earliest human-powered submarine invented.
1620
 Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
1629
 Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
1656

1663  James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.

1668  Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.

 The first reference to a candy cane is made.

1670  Dom Pérignon invents Champagne.

 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.

1671
 Englishmen, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
1698
 Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
1709
 Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.
1712
1769  James Watt invents an improved steam engine.

1774  Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.

 Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.

1784  Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.

1786  John Fitch invents a steamboat.

 The guillotine is invented.

1789
 William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
1792  The first ambulance.

 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.

1794  Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.

 The first soft drink invented.

1798  Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.

 Alessandro Volta invents the battery.

 Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper
1799
making.

 Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.

1800  Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery

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