Inventions of 18th Century

 1701

• Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.   
  
  
  

1709

• Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
  
  
  

1711

Englishmen John Shore invents the tuning fork.

1712

Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.

1717

Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.

1722

French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.

1724

Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.

1733

John Kay invents the flying shuttle.

1745

E.G. von Kleist invents the Leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.

1752

Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod.

1755

Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary on April 15th after nine years of writing. 

1757

John Campbell invents the sextant.

1758

Dolland invents a chromatic lens.

1761

Englishmen John Harrison invents the navigational clock, or marine chronometer, for measuring longitude.

1764

James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.

1767

Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water, or soda water.

1768

Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.

1769

James Watt invents an improved steam engine.

1774

Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.

1775

Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.

Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.

1776

David Bushnell invents a submarine.

1779

Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.

1780

Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal eyeglasses.

Gervinus of Germany invents the circular saw.

1783

Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.

Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.

The Montgolfier brothers invent the hot-air balloon.

Englishmen Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.

1784

Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.

Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.

1785

Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.

Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.

Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.

Jean Pierre Blanchard invents a working parachute.

1786

John Fitch invents the steamboat.

1789

The guillotine is invented.

1790

The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.

1791

John Barber invents the gas turbine.

Early bicycles are invented in Scotland.

1792

William Murdoch invents gas lighting.

The first ambulance arrives.

1794

Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.

Welshmen Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.

1795

Francois Appert invents the preserving jar of food.

1796

Edward Jenner develops the vaccination for smallpox.

1797

Amos Whittemore patents a carding machine.

A British inventor named Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.

1798

The first soft drink is invented.

Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.

1799

Alessandro Volta invents the battery.

Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet papermaking.

Reference:

Bellis, Mary. "Inventions and Inventors of the 18th Century." ThoughtCo, Aug. 28, 2020, thoughtco.com/18th-century-timeline-1992474.