FAMOUS INVENTORS ~ 1750 - 1799
1. Inventors 1750 - 1799 (birth dates)Samuel Morey
(1762-1843)
American
internal combustion engine
Joseph Constantine Carpue
(1764-1846)
French
rhinoplastic surgery
Eli Whitney
(1765-1825)
American
the cotton gin
John Dalton
(1766-1844)
British
atomic theory
Richard Hall Gower
(1768-1833)
British
ship's hull and rigging
George Cayley
(1773-1857)
British
tension-spoke wheels / Caterpillar track
John Howard Kyan
(1774-1850]
Irish
The process of Kyanization used for wood preservation
Humphry Davy
(1778-1829)
British
Davy miners lamp
Charles Derosne
(1780-1846)
French
phosphorus match - discovery of morphine in opium
Aeneas Coffey
(1780-1852)
Irish
heat exchanger - inventor of the Coffey still
Karl Drais
(1785-1851)
German
dandy horse (Draisine)
Edmund Davy
(1785-1857)
Irish
acetylene
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
(1788-1827)
French
Fresnel lens
Gustaf Erik Pasch
(1788-1862)
Swedish
the safety match
Augustus Siebe
(1788-1872)
Saxony&British
Inventor of the standard diving dress
Neil Arnott
(1788-1874)
British
the waterbed
Reverend Dr Robert Stirling
(1790-1878)
Scottish
Inventor of the Stirling engine
Samuel Morse
(1791-1872)
American
telegraph
Josef Ressel
(1793-1857)
Czech
ship propeller
Joseph Bienaimé Caventou
(1795-1877)
French
caffeine - chlorophyll - strychnine
Joseph Henry
(1797-1898)
American
electromagnetic relay
John Stringfellow
(1799-1883)
British
airplane
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