Technology
- April 28 - James Watt receives a British patent for his parallel motion and other improvements to the steam engine.
- June 4 - Elizabeth Thible becomes the first woman passenger in a hot air balloon, at Lyon, France.
- August 21 - Joseph Bramah receives his first lock patent in London.
- Henry Cort of Funtley, England, applies the coal-fired reverbatory furnace to the puddling process for conversion of cast to wrought iron.
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“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamics that present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”
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