Early Modern Inventions Timeline Entries

Faust Vrancic, tried out a device
he called a “fall breaker”in 1617
Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel,
invented the first navigable
submarine in 1620
Blaise Pascal, invented the
mechanical calculator in 1642
Philipp Hainhofer penned the first
known description of a modern
cuckoo clock in 1629
Quality for champagne wine
pioneered by DomPierre Pérignon
in 1670
Evangelista Torricelli invented the
mercury barometer in 1643
Ewald Georg von Kleist invented
the Electrical Capacitor in 1745
Hans Lippershey demonstrated the
first refracting telescope in 1608
Swiss physicist and chemist Aimé
Argand invented the Argand Lamp in
1780
American Benjamin Franklin
invented bifocals in 1784
Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori
invents the piano in 1709
Thomas Newcomen patented the
atmospheric steam engine in 1712
Ambrose Godfrey patents the fire
extinguisher in 1723
John Bird invented the sextant in
1759
John Harrison produced the first
true chronometer in 1761
James Hargreaves invented the
Spinning Jenny in 1764
Joseph Priestley invented
carbonated water in 1767
Georges-Louis Le Sage invented
the Electrical Telegraph in 1774
Threshing Machine invented in
1786 by Andrew Meikle
John Montagu invented the
sandwich in 1762
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented
the Mercury Thermometer in 1714
Humphry Davy invented the first
electric light in 1801
Charles Babbage invented the first
mechanical computer in 1822
Joseph Niépce invented
Photography in 1826
Louis Braille invented Braille in
1824
Samuel FB Morse invented Morse
Code in 1835
Roland Hill invented the postage
stamp in 1837
Augustus Siebe invented the diving
suit in 1837
Joseph Fry moulded the first ever
chocolate bar in 1847
Edwin Budding invented the lawn
mower in 1827
Samuel Colt invented the revolver
in 1836
Richard Trevithick invented the first
locomotive in 1804
Benjamin Franklin invented the
lightning rod in 1749
Antoine Louis designed the
guillotine in 1792
René-Théophile-Hyacinthe
Laennec, invented the stethoscope
in 1816.
The Montgolfier brothers invented
the hot air balloon in 1782
James Simpson found and used
chloroform as anaesthetic in 1842
Simonio and Lyndiana Bernacotti,
invented the pencil in its modern
form around 1560.
In 1596, the first flushing toilet was
invented by Sir John Harrington
Peter Henlein invented the first
pocket watch in 1504.
Mede de Sivrac of France
constructed the Celirifere in 1790
Denis Papin suggested the first
cylinder and piston steam engine in
1690