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Jan 1, 1300
Invention of Mechanical Clock
The mechanical clock was invented in the 1300s there-fore the clock was started to be measured in 24 hours. Galileo discovered the pendulum in the clock in 1581 -
Jan 1, 1456
Invention of Printing Press
IN 1456 the printing press was invented by Gutenberg. There-fore people were able to read more and have books -
Jan 1, 1496
Invention of Wallpaper
In 1496 the first paper mill came into operation in England. Before wallpaper only rich people could decorate their castle. -
Invention of the Microscope
The first useful microscope was developed in the Netherlands in between 1590 and 1608.The inventor was Hans Lippershey. -
Invention of the flush toilet
Sir John Harrington made the first flush toilet for himself in 1596.Later Alexander Cummings reinvented the flush toilet called the water closet. -
Invention of the telescope
In 1608 Hans Lippershey made the first telescope. In 1668 Isaac Newton made improvements to the telescope. -
Invention of the leather covered rowboat
In 1620 Cornelis Drebbel who was a Dutch inventor built a leather covered rowboat with oars. Drebbel was an engineer who worked for the British Navy -
Invention of the graded lenses
In 1623 the Spanish invented graded lenses improving the trial-and-error method of trying on different lenses until they had the best one to see -
Invention of the plunger closet
In 1777 Samuel Prosser received a patent for a plunger closet. Year later Joseph Braham invented a valve at the bottom of the bowl -
Invention of Gunpowder
Gunpowder was invented around 850A.D. IN hte seventeenth century the gun was developed by the english and dutch armies.
