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1752
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United States: Benjamin Franklin publishes
findings on electricity
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1766
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United States: Franklin invents bifocals
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1779
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Britain: First cast-iron bridge
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1782
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Scotland: James Watt develops
double-acting steam engine
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1783
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France: First hot air balloon
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1784
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Britain: Wrought iron
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1785
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Britain: Power loom
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1793
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United States: Eli
Whitney invents cotton
gin
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1795
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France adopts metric system
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1798
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Britain: Edward Jenner begins vaccinations
for smallpox
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1799
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Egypt: French archaeologists find Rosetta
Stone
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1804–1806
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Lewis and Clark expedition through
western United States
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1807
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United States: Fulton runs first
commercial steamboat
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1809
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France: Lamarck’s theory
of evolution
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1814
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Britain: First steam
locomotive
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1825
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Britain: First public
railroad
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1834
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United States:
Horse-drawn harvester-reaper
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1834
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United States: Samuel
Colt invents revolver
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1837
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United States: Steel plow
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1837
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Britain: Wheatstone and Cooke invent
electric telegraph
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c. 1839
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France: Photography invented with
first daguerreotype
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1839
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United States: Goodyear vulcanizes
rubber
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1844
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United States: Samuel
Morse patents telegraph
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1851
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London: Great Exhibition
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1858
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First transatlantic telegraph cable
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1859
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Charles Darwin’sOn the Origin of
Species proposes evolution by natural selection
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1862
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United States: R. J. Gatling creates machine
gun
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c. 1864
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France: Louis Pasteur presents theory of
germs, invents pasteurization
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1867
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Sweden: Alfred
Nobel invents dynamite
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1869
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Russia: Mendeleev’s periodic table of
elements
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1869
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Transcontinental railroad completed in
Utah
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1869
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Suez Canal opens
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1876
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United States: Alexander Graham
Bell invents telephone
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1877–1879
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United States: Thomas
Edison invents phonograph and light
bulb
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1881
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United States: First electrical power plant
|
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1883
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United States: First
steel skyscraper (Chicago)
|
|
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1884
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Britain: Parsons’s steam
turbine
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1885
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Germany: Gottleib Daimler creates
internal combustion
engine and motorcycle
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1888
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United States: George Eastman makes
handheld camera
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1891
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Russia begins Trans-Siberian
Railroad
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1895
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France: Lumières present first
public cinema
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1897
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Britain: J. J. Thomson
discovers electron
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1898
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France: Pierre and Marie
Curie discover radium
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1900
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Germany: Max
Planck forms quantum
theory
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1903
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United States: Wright brothers fly
first airplane
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1905
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United States: Albert Einstein proposes
first theory of relativity
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1908
|
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United States: Henry Ford begins
manufacture of Model T, develops assembly-line
production
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1909
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United States expedition led by Robert
Peary reaches North Pole
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1914
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Panama Canal opens
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1750–1914: Science & Technology
