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1700s, Chinese Triad -
1700s, Europe and the Enlightenment +
1700s, Europe and the waltz +
1700s, Germany and marble +
1700s, Sandwich and sandwich +
1700s, UK and the sandbag +
mid-1700s, Sicily and the Mafia -
late 1700s, Italy and pizza +
late 1700s, Peking opera +
1702, Floyer and hydrotherapy +
1703, Leibniz and the binary numbering system +
1709, Cristofori and the piano +
1711, Shore and the tuning fork +
1714, Fahrenheit and the mercury thermometer +
1716, Kangxi Dictionary and Chinese radicals +
1718, Puckle and the machine gun +
1722, Roggeveen and Easter Island, Easter Day +
1724, Fahrenheit and the Fahrenheit scale +
1725, UK and the rocking chair +
1729, de Mairan and circadian rhythms +
c. 1730, Hadley, Godfrey, and the sextant +
1732-1799, Washington, an American politician and soldier +
1733, Hales and blood pressure +
1735, Linnaeus and binomial nomenclature +
1737, Cruden and the concordance to the Bible +
1740-1814, de Sade, an aristocrat and writer -
1742, Celsius and the Celsius scale +
1745, unknown composer and God Save the Queen, the +
1746, Roebuck and sulfuric acid +
1750-1820, classical music +
1750, Europe and tarot -
1752, Franklin and the lightning rod +
1755, Johnson and A Dictionary of the English Language +
1760, Merlin and inline roller skates +
c. 1760, Spilsbury and the jigsaw puzzle +
1766, Cavendish and hydrogen +
1767, Hargreaves and the spinning jenny +
1770, Nairne and eraser +
1772, Priestley and pop +
1774-1845, Johnny Appleseed, a missionary and nurseryman +
1774, Priestley and oxygen +
1774, Spain and flamenco +
1775, de l'Epee and sign language +
1775, Franklin and the bifocal lens +
1775, J. Walker and Rhyming Dictionary +
1776, Independence Day, Jul. 4 +
1779, J. Newton and Amazing Grace +
c. 1780, France and playing cards +
1781, W. Herschel and Uranus +
1783, J. Mitchell and black holes +
1784, J. Frank and The Vienna General Hospital +
1784, Russia and the roller coaster +
1785, Blanchard and the parachute +
1785, Cartwright and the power loom +
1787, Washington and the US Constitution +
1789, France and French fries +
1789, Guillotin, a lobbyist for the use of the guillotine +
1789, Klaproth and uranium +
1789, Ransome and the cast iron plow +
1789-1797, Washington and the first President of the US +
1791, Gregor and titanium +
1792, Chappe and the semaphore +
1792, Larrey and the ambulance +
1792, Louis, Laquiante, and the guillotine +
1796, France and the roulette +
1796, Jenner and the smallpox vaccine +
1796, Senefelder and lithography +