Renaissance & Elizabethan Inventions and Inventors Timeline

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