Inventions Timeline

0673  Greek fire was invented by Kallinikos of Heliopolis   

0724  liang Ling-Can invents the first fully mechanical clock   

0800  gunpowder in China   

0852  parachute was invented by Armen Firman   

0900  horse collar in Europe   

1041  movable type printing press was invented by Bi Sheng   

1280  eyeglasses   

1350  suspension bridges in Peru   

1450  Alphabetic, movable type printing press was invented by Johann Gutenberg   

1450  Johannes Gutenberg pioneers the modern printing press, using rearrangeable metal letters called movable type   

1470  The first parachute is sketched on paper by an unknown inventor   

1492  nürnberg Terrestrial Globe by German mapmaker Martin Behaim   

1500  ball bearing was invented by Leonardo Da Vinci together with flying machines, including a helicopter, the first mechanical calculator and one of the first programmable robots   

1510  pocket watch was invented by Peter Henlein   

1530  Gerardus Mercator helps to revolutionize navigation with better mapmaking   

1540  Ether was invented by Valerius Cordus   

1576  Ironclad warship was invented by Oda Nobunaga   

1581  Pendulum was invented by Galileo Galilei   

1590  A Dutch spectacle maker named Zacharias Janssen makes the first compound microscope   

1593  Thermometer was invented by Galileo Galilei   

1600  William Gilbert publishes his great book De Magnete describing how Earth behaves like a giant magnet. It's the beginning of the scientific study of magnetism   

1608  Telescope was invented by Hans Lippershey   

1609  Microscope was invented by Galileo Galilei   

1620  slide rule was invented by William Oughtred   

1623  Mechanical calculator   

1642  Adding machine was invented by Blaise Pascal   

1642  Adding machine   

1643  Barometer was invented by Evangelista Torricelli   

1643  Galileo's pupil Evangelista Torricelli builds the first mercury barometer for measuring air pressure   

1645  Vacuum pump was invented by Otto von Guericke   

1650  christiaan Huygens develops the pendulum clock (using Galileo's earlier discovery that a swinging pendulum can be used to keep time).   

1657  pendulum clock was invented by Christiaan Huygens   

1671  Gottfried Leibniz is known as one of the founding fathers of calculus   

1679  Pressure cooker was invented by Denis Papin   

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