Elizabethan Inventions

The Elizabethan Period - Elizabethan Inventions
The Elizabethan Period saw the emergence of interesting Elizabethan Inventions and Inventors of the Renaissance era. A timeline of the inventions of the 1500's detail facts ad information about famous Inventors and Inventions of the Elizabethan Period.

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
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• Interesting Facts and information about Elizabethan Inventions in the Elizabethan Period
• Inventions and Inventors of the Renaissance period
• Telescope
• Pocket Watch
• Bottle Beer.
• Flush Toilet
• Thermometer
• Frozen Chicken

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