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| 1746 |
| | | Monsieur Passemont constructs in Paris a millennium clock which can record the date in any year up to AD 9999 | |
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| 1761 |
| | | John Harrison's fourth chronometer is only five seconds out at the end of a test journey from England to Jamaica | |
|  | Harrison's 1st Marine Timekeeper
National Maritime Museum
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| 1764 |
| | | James Watt ponders on the inefficiency of contemporary steam engines and invents the condenser | |
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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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| 1776 |
| | | Two Boulton and Watt engines are installed, the first of many in the mines and mills of England's developing industrial revolution | |
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| 1779 |
| | | The world's first iron bridge is assembled in a few months across the Severn at Coalbrookdale | |
|  | W. Williams, The Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale
Ironbridge Gorge Museum
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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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