Eighteenth Century
- 1707 - Denis Papin - produces design for his second piston steam engine in conjunction with Gottfried Leibniz.
- 1712 - Thomas Newcomen builds a piston-and-cylinder steam-powered water pump for pumping water out of mines
- 1748 - William Cullen demonstrates the first artificial refrigeration at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
- 1759 - John Harrison uses a bimetallic strip in his third marine chronometer (H3) to compensate for temperature-induced changes in the balance spring.
- 1769 - James Watt patents his first improved steam engine, see Watt steam engine
- 1787 - Jacques Charles formulates Charles's law which describes the relationship between as gas's volume and temperature. He does not publish this however and it is not recognised until Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac develops and references it in 1802.
- 1791 - John Barber patents the idea of a gas turbine.
- 1799 - Richard Trevithick builds the first high pressure steam engine.
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