Notable Inventions of the 18th Century
1701: Seed drill: Jethro Tull
1709: Iron smelting using coke: Abraham Darby I
1712: Steam piston engine: Thomas Newcomen
1710: Thermometer: Ren? Antoine Ferchault de R?aumur
1711: Tuning fork: John Shore
1714: Mercury thermometer: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
1730: Mariner's quadrant: Thomas Godfrey
1731: Sextant: John Hadley
1733: Flying shuttle: John Kay
1742: Franklin stove: Benjamin Franklin
1750: Flatboat: Jacob Yoder
1752: Lightning rod: Benjamin Franklin
1764: Spinning jenny: James Hargreaves/Thomas Highs
1767: Carbonated water: Joseph Priestley
1769: Steam engine: James Watt
1769: Water frame: Richard Arkwright/Thomas Highs
1769: Steam car: Nicolas Cugnot
1775: Submarine Turtle: David Bushnell
1775: new kind of Boring machine: John Wilkinson
1776: Steamboat: Claude de Jouffroy
1777: Card teeth making machine: Oliver Evans
1777: Circular saw: Samuel Miller
1779: Spinning mule: Samuel Crompton
1780s: Iron rocket: Tipu Sultan in India
1783: Multitubular boiler engine: John Stevens
1783: Parachute: Jean Pierre Blanchard
1783: Hot air balloon: Montgolfier brothers
1784: Bifocals: Benjamin Franklin
1784: Argand lamp: Ami Argand
1784: Shrapnel shell: Henry Shrapnel
1785: Power loom: Edmund Cartwright
1785: Automatic flour mill: Oliver Evans
1786: Threshing machine: Andrew Meikle
1787: Non-condensing high pressure Engine: Oliver Evans
1790: Cut and head nail machine: Jacob Perkins
1791: Artificial teeth: Nicholas Dubois De Chemant
1793: Cotton gin: Eli Whitney
1793: Optical telegraph: Claude Chappe
1797: Cast iron plow: Charles Newbold
1798: Vaccination: Edward Jenner
1798: Lithography: Alois Senefelder
1799: Seeding machine: Eliakim Spooner