Inventions during the Restoration Period Megan, Chandler, and Lukester.

Inventions during the Restoration PeriodMegan, Chandler, and Lukester

1709 Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.

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• 1717Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.

1722 French C. Hopffer patents the fire

extinguisher.

1733 John Kay invents the flying shuttle.

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1745 Richard Arkwright patents the

spinning frame.

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1775 Alexander Cummings invents the

flush toilet.

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1776 David Bushnell invents a submarine.

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1780 Gervinus invents the circular saw.

1783 Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first

parachute.

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1785 Claude Berthollet invents chemical

bleaching.

1792 The first ambulance.

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1799 Alessandro Volta invents the battery.

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