Inventions

===Here is a brief description of the more important inventions during the Renaissance Period. During the Renaissance most people were recovering or developing sickness. Most people's only outlet in life was their creative side. This is how Europe regained some strength. That is why it is called the rebirth.===

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 * 1450: Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press with movable type in Germany. This made a huge difference to the knowledge of the population. Now things could be produced in mass which meant ideas were not destroyed by destroying one copy of a pamphlet.[[image:http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/fileadmin/gdf/gdf10/gutenbergpress.jpg]]media type="custom" key="5192745"
 * 1510: Leonardo da Vinci designs a horizontal water wheel which was im portant to milling and provided power for things such as harvesting and other agricultural purposes
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 * 1510: Peter Henlein invents the pocket watch
 * 1540: Toriano invents a mandolin-playing automaton-HAHA i though this one was interesting. It is basically a doll of a jester playing the mandolin.


 * 1543: John Dee creates a wooden beetle that can fly for an undergraduate production - one of the first rob**ot.**
 * 1600: William Gilbert publishes treatise "On the Magnet". William Gilbert is referred to as the father of the science of electricity and magnetism
 * The first telescope was invented by Hans Lippershey (c1570-c1619). The telescope was introduced to astronomy in 1609 by Galileo Galilei

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-inventions.htm
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