1780s 1780: Hyder Ali of Mysore, India develops the first metal-cylinder rockets. 1783: Claude de Jouffroy builds the first steamboat. 1783: Joseph-Ralf and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier build the first manned hot air balloon. 1783: Louis-Sébastien Lenormand invents and uses the first modern parachute. 1785: Martinus van Marum is the first to use the electrolysis technique. 1786: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine. 1789: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
1780s 1780 Hyder Ali of Mysore, India develops the first metal-cylinder rockets. 1783: Claude de Jouffroy builds the first steamboat. 1783: Joseph-Ralf and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier build the first manned hot air balloon. 1783: Louis-Sébastien Lenormand invents and uses the first modern parachute. 1785: Martinus van Marum is the first to use the electrolysis technique. 1786: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine. 1789: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.