Editing Timeline of historic inventions (section)

====1780s====
*'''1780:''' [[Hyder Ali]] of [[Kingdom of Mysore|Mysore]], India develops the first [[Mysorean rockets|metal-cylinder rockets]].<ref name="Roddam">{{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/37179995 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727034357/https://www.nal.res.in/pdf/pdfrocket.pdf |title=Rockets in Mysore and Britain, 1750–1850 A.D. |last=Narasimha |first=Roddam |date=27 July 2011 |archive-date=27 July 2011 |publisher=National Aeronautical Laboratory and Indian Institute of Science.}}</ref>
* '''1783:''' [[Claude de Jouffroy]] builds the first [[steamboat]].
* '''1783:''' [[Montgolfier brothers|Joseph-Ralf]] and [[Montgolfier brothers|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]].