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| 1764 |
| | | Lancashire spinner James Hargreaves conceives the idea of the spinning jenny, with multiple spindles worked from a single wheel | |
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| 1766 |
| | | Pierre le Roy's chronometer, as accurate as Harrison's and cheaper to construct, is set to become the standard model | |
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| 1769 |
| | | French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot successfully tests a steam wagon, probably the first working mechanical vehicle | |
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| 1771 |
| | | English entrepreneur Richard Arkwright adds water power to spinning by means of the water frame | |
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| 1779 |
| | | Samuel Crompton perfects the mule, a machine for spinning that combines the merits of Hargreave's jenny and Arkwright's water frame | |
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| 1782 |
| | | French paper manufacturer Joseph Montgolfier sends a hot-air balloon 3000 feet (1000m) into the air, in front of a crowd in Annonay | |
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| 1783 |
| | | Ten days after the first human ascent in a hot-air balloon the feat is repeated, again in Paris, in a version lifted by hydrogen | |
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| 1783 |
| | | Louis XVI watches through his telescope the first balloon flight with living passengers – a sheep, a cock and a duck | |
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| 1783 |
| | | A hot-air balloon rises from a Paris garden, carrying the first human aeronauts – Pilàtre de Rozier and the marquis d'Arlandes | |
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| 1784 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin, irritated at needing two pairs of spectacles, commissions from a lens-grinder the first bifocals | |
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