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1712 to 1790
This page of the timeline covers -
1714
first typewriter patented by Henry Mill in England
1719
Reaumur proposes using wood to make paper
1720
John Law's Banque Royale in Paris goes bung
South Sea Bubble bursts
Bubble Act in UK
Francis Hutcheson's Inquiry into the Original of Our
Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
1725
1725
Bouchon uses perforated paper tape to control loom
1727
The Gentleman's Magazine, first modern magazine
1729
Franklin's Modest Enquiry into the Nature & Necessity
of a Paper Currency
1728
Falcon uses perforated cards to control loom
Chambers' Cyclopaedia
1737
Vaucanson's mechanical flute player
1738
Vaucanson's mechanical duck
1740
Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature
1741
American Magazine is first magazine in North America
1742
Franklin's General Magazine prints first American
magazine ads
Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
1750
1751
Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty
1752
Gregorian calendar adopted in Britain
1753
Linnaeus' Species Plantarum
1755
Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
Great Lisbon Earthquake kills 30,000
1757
Whatman invents wove paper
Linnaeus' Systema Naturae
1759
Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1760
1761
Rousseau's Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse
1762
Académie Francaise recognises term 'millionaire'
Rousseau's Émile
1764
Fournier develops point system to measure type sizes
Lloyds Ship Register
Beccaria's Essay on Crimes & Punishment
1765
earliest known children's pop-up book
1767
Burmese army sacks Ayutthaya
Ferguson's A History of Civil Society
1768
first edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica
first voyage of Cook's Endeavour
Royal Academy established in England
1770
gum eraser
von Kempelen's mechanical Turk
James Cook lands in New South Wales
1772
first patent issued in England for coloured ink
Scottish banking crisis
1774
paper whitener
1775
Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy
1776
Richard Price's Observations on the Nature of Civil
Liberty
1779
John Hely-Hutchinson's The Commercial Restraints of
Ireland Considered is last book burnt by common hangman
in England
1780
1783
Montgolfier's first hot air balloon flight
1782
Anna Göldi is last execution for witchcraft in Europe?
1784
Smith's The Wealth of Nations
Cort's iron manufacturing process successfully deployed
1785
first edition of London Daily Universal Register
1786
Playfair's Commercial & Political Atlas
Haüy's Essai sur l’Education des Aveugles
1788
London Daily Universal Register becomes The
Times
1789
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Bentham's Introduction to the Principles &
Morals of Legislation
1790
US Copyright Act
one accountant in London
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