Benjamin Franklin announced his invention of bifocal eyeglasses.
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Scotsman John Logie Baird demonstrated the color television transmission in London for the first time.
Inventor Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine in England.
Thomas Edison received a patent for his new invention, the phonograph.
The pocket watch patent was awarded to Dutch mathematician and scientist Christiaan Huygens.
John Hampton patented the Venetian blind.
