18th Century
- 1702 – Guillaume Amontons first calculates absolute zero to be −240 °C using an air thermometer, theorizing at this point the gas would reach zero volume and zero pressure.
- 1756 – The first documented public demonstration of artificial refrigeration by William Cullen
- 1782 – Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace invent the ice-calorimeter
- 1784 – Gaspard Monge liquefied the first gas producing liquid sulfur dioxide.
- 1787 – Charles's law (Gas law, relating volume and temperature)
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