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Notable Inventions of the 16th Century |
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Created: Monday, 07 May 2007 |
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Updated: Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
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Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first working version of the invention is used here.
1500(circa): Ball bearing: Leonardo Da Vinci
1500(circa): Scissors: Leonardo Da Vinci
1510: Pocket watch: Peter Henlein
1540: Ether: Valerius Cordus
1576: Ironclad warship: Oda Nobunaga
1581: Pendulum: Galileo Galilei
1582: Gregorian calendar: multiple inventors
1589: Stocking frame: William Lee
1593: Thermometer: Galileo Galilei
Musket in Europe
Pencil in England
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