Renaissance & Elizabethan Inventions and Inventors Timeline
- 1450: Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press with movable type in Germany
- 1510: Leonardo da Vinci designs a horizontal water wheel
- 1510: Peter Henlein invents the pocket watch
- 1513: Urs Graf invents etching
- 1537: Tartaglia's gunner's quadrant for aiming cannon, 1st firing tables
- 1540: Toriano invents a mandolin-playing automaton
- 1543: John Dee creates a wooden beetle that can fly for an undergraduate production - one of the first robots
- 1550: John Dee, 'the guiding spirit' of the English school of mathematicians wrote a notable preface to the first edition in English of Euclid's Elements of Geometry
- 1565: Conrad Gesner of Switzerland invents the pencil
- 1568: Bottled beer is invented in London
- 1569: Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection
- 1582: Pope Gregory XIII invents the modern, Gregorian calendar
- 1583: Leonard and Thomas Digges invent the telescope
- 1589: William Lee invents the knitting machine
- 1590: Dutchmen, Hans & Zacharias Janssen invent the compound microscope
- 1591: Sir John Harington invents the flush toilet in England
- 1593: Francis Bacon invented the frozen chicken
- 1593: Galileo invents a water thermometer
- 1600: William Gilbert publishes treatise "On the Magnet". William Gilbert is referred to as the father of the science of electricity and magnetism
- The first telescope was invented by Hans Lippershey (c1570-c1619). The telescope was introduced to astronomy in 1609 by Galileo Galilei
Renaissance Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an inventor, artist, architect, and scientist. He deserves a special mention as the greatest and most prolific inventor of the Renaissance Period. Leonardo Da Vinci made detailed sketches of:
- The airplane
- The helicopter
- The parachute
- The submarine
- The armored car
- Rapid-fire guns
- Ball bearings
Interesting Facts and Information about the Elizabethan Period and Elizabethan Inventions
Some interesting facts and information about the Elizabethan Period and Elizabethan Inventions. Details, facts and information about the Elizabethan Period can be accessed via the Elizabethan Era Sitemap.
