Technology
- Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the first semaphore line, between Paris and Lille, constituting an optical telegraph.
- William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
- George Anschutz constructs the first blast furnace in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- James Rumsey is granted a patent for a water turbine, in England.
- The first iron-cased Mysorean rockets are successfully developed and used by Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, rulers of the Kingdom of Mysore in India, against British East India Company forces during the Anglo-Mysore Wars.
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“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)