New inventions of the time period

1450- •Nicholas of Cusa creates spectacles of polished lenses for nearsighted persons. 1455 •Johannes Gutenberg invents printing press with metal movable type. 1465 •In Germany, drypoint engravings invented. 1475 •Muzzle-loaded rifles invented in Italy and Germany. 1486 •In Venice, the first known copyright granted. 1485 •Leonardo DaVinci designed the first parachute. 1487 •Bell chimes invented. 1492 •Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines. •Martin Behaim invented the first map globe. 1494 •Whiskey invented in Scotland. 1500- •Wheel-lock musket invented. •The first flush toilets appeared. 1510 •Leonardo DaVinci designs a horizontal water wheel. •Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein. 1513 •Urs Graf invents etching. 1565 •A graphite pencil invented by Conrad Gesner. 1568 •Bottled beer invented in London. 1569 •Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection. 1589 •Englishmen, William Lee invents a knitting machine called the stocking frame. 1590 •Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope. 1593 •Galileo Galilei invents a water thermometer.

1600- 1608 •Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope. 1620 •The earliest human-powered submarine invented by Cornelis Drebbel. 1624 •William Oughtred invents a slide rule. 1625 •Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion. 1629 •Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine. 1636 •W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer. 1642 •Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine. 1643 •Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer. 1650 •Otto von Guericke invents a air pump. 1750- 1701 •Jethro Tull invents the seed drill. 1709 •Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano. 1711 •Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork. 1712 •Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine. 1717 •Edmond Halley invents the diving bell. 1722 •French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher. 1724 •Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer. 1733 •John Kay invents the flying shuttle. 1745 •E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.