Inventions from 1440 to 1799

All scientific inventions often start with some ideas, those ideas are often incomplete but deeply conceal many of the essence of the invention. The following is a summary of the list of inventions

Year  

Invention / Découverte  

Invent / Discover

The writer's name  

Country  

1440

Imprimerie

Printer

Johannes Gutenberg

Germany

1555

Email

Porcelain enamel

Bernard Palissy

France

1590

Microscope

Microscope

Zacharias Janssen

Netherlands

1608

Lunette astronomique

Telescope

Hans Lippershey

Netherlands

1625

Transfusion sanguine

Blood transfusion

Jean-Baptiste Denys

France

1629

Turbine à vapeur

Steam turbine

Giovanni Branca

Italy

1642

Additionner machine

Machine to do additive

Blaise Pascal

France

1643

Baromètre

Manometer

Evangelista Torricelli

Italy

1650

Pompe air

Inflatable

Otto von Guericke

Germany

1656

Balancier d'horloge

The pendulum is in the lake

Christiaan Huygens

Netherlands

1670

Balance à plateaux découverts

Scales Roberval table

Gilles Personne de Roberval

France

1671

Machine à calculer

Machine for calculation

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Germany

1675

Autoclave

Autoclave self-closing

Denis Papin

France

1687

Principe d'une machine à vapeur à piston

Principle of steam machine using piston

Denis Papin

France

1698

Pompe à vapeur

Steam pump

Thomas Savery

Brother

1701

Semoir

sowing machine

Jethro Tull

Brother

1710

Piano forte

piano

Bartolomeo Cristofori

Italy

1712

Machine à vapeur

Steam machine

Thomas Newcomen

Brother

1714

Thermomètre à mercure

Mercury thermometer

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Germany

1717

Cloche de plongée

Bell to dive into the water

Edmund Halley

Brother

1725

Clichage, Stéréotypie

Stereotype

William Ged

Brother

1745

Bouteille de Leyde (condensateur)

Leyde capacitor bottle (capacitor machine)

Ewald Jürgen von Kleist

Germany

1752

Paratonnerre

Lightning rod

Benjamin Franklin

America

1769

Métier à filer (hydraulique)

Spinning machine (weaving)

Richard Arkwright

Brother

1770

Automobile

Car

Joseph Cugnot

France

1775

Sous-marin

Submarine

David Bushnell

America

1780

Lentille bifocale

Bifocal glasses

Benjamin Franklin

America

1783

Bateau à vapeur

Steamer

Claude Fr.Jouffroy d'Abbans

France

1783

Aérostat

Balloon

Joseph et Étienne de Montgolfier

France

1784

Batteuse

Threshing machine

Andrew Meikle

Brother

1785

Métier à tisser mécanique

Mechanical weaving (not by hand)

Edmund Cartwright

Brother

1786

Bateau à vapeur

Steamer

John Fitch

America

1791

Turbine à gaz

Gas turbines

John Barber

Brother

1792

Gaz d'éclairage

gas to light the lamp

William Murdock

Brother

1793

Egreneuse

Grain peeling machine

Eli Whitney

America

1794

Télégraphie érienne

Aviation telegram

Claude Chappe

France

1795

Presse hydraulique

 

Joseph Bramah

Brother

1796

Lithographie

Lithuanian printing techniques

Aloys Senefelder

Germany

1796

Vaccination contre la variole

Immunization of celestial disease

Edward Jenner

Brother

1797

Parachute

Parachute

Andre Jacques Garnerin

France

1797

Eclairage au gaz

Gas lamps

Philippe Lebon

France

1799

Anesthésie

Anesthetic

Humphrey Dovy

Brother

Update 14 December 2018
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