FAMOUS INVENTIONS

LIST OF WELL-KNOWN INVENTIONS THROUGH TIME

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was a French inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle. This claim is disputed by some sources, however, which suggest that Ferdinand Verbiest, as a member of a Jesuit mission in China, may have been the first to build a 'car' around 1672.

Cugnot was one of the first to employ successfully a device for converting the reciprocating motion of a steam piston into rotary motion by means of a ratchet arrangement. A small version of his three-wheeled fardier à vapeur ran in 1769. (A fardier was a massively built two-wheeled horse-drawn cart for transporting very heavy equipment such as cannon barrels) (source: wikipedia.org)

FAMOUS INVENTORS FROM 1700 TO 1749

This list is especially useful for those arguments regarding which invention was invented 'when' and by whom? ;-)

1. Inventors 1700 - 1749 (birth dates)

Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790)
American
the pointed lightning rod conductor - bifocal glasses - the Franklin stove - the glass harmonica

William Cullen
(1710-1790)
British
first artificial refrigerator

Jozef Karol Hell
(1713-1789)
Slovakian
the water pillar

John Roebuck
(1718-1794)

British
lead chamber process for sulfuric acid synthesis

James Hargreaves
(1720-1778)
British
invented the spinning jenny

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
(1725-1804)
French
automobile

James Watt
(1736-1819)
Scottish
improved Steam engine

Montgolfier brothers
(1740-1810) and (1745-1799)
French
hot-air balloon

Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
American
swivel chair

William Cumberland Cruikshank
(1745-1800)
British
chlorinated water

Alessandro Volta
(1745-1827)
Italian
battery


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