Elizabethan Inventions
- 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.
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