Age of Enlightenment

Explore the ingenious inventions that sparked the dawn of modern science and technology, featuring innovations such as the lightning rod, hot air balloon, cotton gin, smallpox vaccine, and the steam engine.

Every set includes 20 carefully selected scientific breakthroughs, suitable for Large or Small walls or any metallic area. With a display space of 1m by 35cm, establish a dynamic and vibrant exhibit.

  • Diving bell - Edmund Halley - 1691

    UK

  • Inoculation - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1721

    UK

  • Systema Naturae - Carl Linnaeus - 1735

    Sweden

  • Carbon dioxide - Joseph Black - 1750s

    UK

  • Lightning rod - Benjamin Franklin - 1752

    Boston, British America, modern day USA

  • Steam engine - James Watt - 1763-1775

    UK

  • Spinning jenny - James Hargreaves - 1770

    UK

  • Oxygen - Antoine Lavoisier et al. - 1772-1777

    Sweden, UK and France

  • Measuring blood pressure - Stephen Hales - 1773

    UK

  • Boring machine tool - John Wilkinson - 1774

    UK

  • Hot air baloon - Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier - 1783

    France

  • Gas lighting - William Murdoch - 1792-1794

    UK

  • Hydraulic press - Joseph Bramah - 1795

    UK

  • Lithography - Alois Senefelder - 1796-1798

    Germany

  • Smallpox vaccine - Edward Jenner - 1796

    UK

  • Voltaic pile - Alessandro Volta - 1800

    Italy

  • Arc lamp - Humpry Davy - 1802-1809

    UK

  • General anaesthetic - Hanaoka Seishū - 1804

    Kii Province, modern day Japan

  • Canning - Nicolas Appert - 1809-1810

    France

  • Electroplating - Luigi Brugnatelli - 1805

    Italy

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