inventions of the renaissance timeline
Timeline of the Inventions of the Renaissance Period
There were many great, innovative things that were invented during the Renaissance. The timeline of the inventions of the Renaissance period is given in this article.
Year | Inventions and Discoveries |
1300 | The first mechanical clock. |
1366 | Scales for weighing. |
1400 | First golf ball was invented |
1411 | The trigger for the gun. The first piano called the Spinet invented. |
1420 | Oil painting was invented. |
1421 | Hoisting gear invented in Florence. |
1450 | Lenses for near-sighted people invented by Nicholas of Cusa. |
1456 | Printing press by Gutenberg. |
1465 | Drypoint engravings invented. |
1475 | Muzzle loaded rifles invented in Italy. |
1485 | Leonardo da Vinci designed the first parachute. |
1487 | Bell chimes. |
1494 | Whiskey in Scotland. |
1500 | The first flush toilets were invited. |
1510 | Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein. |
1514 | Nicolaus Copernicus established the fact that the center of the universe is not the Earth, but the Earth lies near it. |
1520 | Ferdinand Magellan became the first European to spot a galaxy in the sky, and he named it "Magellan Penguin". He also discovered the Magellan Strait. |
1568 | Bottled beer was invented in London. |
1589 | Knitting machine invented by William Lee. |
1590 | Compound microscope invented by Zacharias Janssen. |
1593 | Galileo Galilei invented the water thermometer. |
1608 | First refracting telescope was invented by Hans Lippershey. |
1620 | The first submarine was invented by Cornelis Drebbel. |
1624 | Slide Rule was invented by William Oughtred. |
1625 | Method of blood transfusion was invented by Jean Baptiste Denys. |
1636 | W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer. |
1642 | Adding Machine invented by Blaise Pascal. |
1643 | Barometer invented by Torricelli. |
1650 | The first air pump. |
1656 | The pendulum clock was invented by Christian Huygens. |
1660 | The cuckoo clock was first made in Black Forest, Germany. |
1663 | The first reflecting telescope was constructed by James Gregory. |
1670 | Champagne was invented by Dom Perignon. |
1671 | The first calculating machine invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. |
1671 | Sir Isaac Newton publishes his major work, Principia, which contains the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation. |
1679 | Pressure cooker invented by Denis Papin. |
1698 | Steam pump invented by Thomas Savery. |