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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
1720 John Law's Banque Royale in Paris goes bung
1720 South Sea Bubble bursts
1720 Bubble Act in UK
1720 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
1728 Chambers' Cyclopaedia
1737 Vaucanson's mechanical flute player
1738 Vaucanson's mechanical duck
1740
David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature
1741 American Magazine is first magazine in North
America
1742
Ben Franklin's General Magazine prints first American
magazine ads
Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
1750
1752 Gregorian calendar adopted in Britain
1753 Linnaeus' Species Plantarum
1755 Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
1755 Great Lisbon Earthquake kills 30,000
1757 Whatman invents wove paper
Linnaeus' Systema Naturae
1759 Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1760
1761 JJ Rousseau's Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse
1762 Académie Francaise recognises term 'millionaire'
1762 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
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
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
Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles
& Morals of Legislation
1790
US Copyright Act
one accountant in London
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