Inventions

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Inventions · 1500

Galician navigator João da Nova discovered Ascension Island

Inventions · 1501

clavichord

Inventions · 1502

Galician navigator João da Nova, first person to sight Saint Helena

Inventions · 1502

Gough Island likely discovered by the Portuguese explorer Gonçalo Álvares

Inventions · 1505

Laocoön and His Sons unearthed in the vineyard of Felice De Fredis in Rome

Inventions · 1506

Tristão da Cunha first recorded sighted by Portuguese explorer namesake

Inventions · 1506

Ponce de León identifies the Gulf Stream

Inventions · 1513

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca records the existence of Iguazu Falls [S America]

Inventions · 1541

Copernicus propose Sun is universe center

Inventions · 1543

imaginary numbers, credited to Girolamo Cardano

Inventions · 1545

zaffre

Inventions · 1550

standard 52-card, French-suited playing cards

Inventions · 1550

Nazca Lines first mentioned/recorded by Pedro Cieza de León in his book

Inventions · 1553

the equal (=) sign, credited to Robert Recorde

Inventions · 1557

graphite pencil

Inventions · 1565

turquoise

Inventions · 1573

Gregorian

Inventions · 1582

the decimal, credited to Simon Stevin

Inventions · 1585

microscope

Inventions · 1590

Berenberg Bank (Germany)

Inventions · 1590

thermometer

Inventions · 1593

Oxygen, Atomic Number 8

Inventions · 1604

Frenchman Samuel de Champlain first eyewitnessed Niagara Falls [N America]

Inventions · 1604

telescope

Inventions · 1608

rings of Saturn observed by Galileo

Inventions · 1610

Sunspots first observed telescopically

Inventions · 1610

logarithms, credited to John Napier

Inventions · 1614

bandore (banjo)

Inventions · 1621

cuckoo clock

Inventions · 1629

slide rule

Inventions · 1630

the multiplication (×) sign, credited to William Oughtred

Inventions · 1631

Blaise Pascal and Wilhelm Schickard invent the mechanical calculator

Inventions · 1642

barometer

Inventions · 1643

badminton/shuttlecock

Inventions · 1650

pendulum clock

Inventions · 1656

pendulum clock (by Christiaan Huygens)

Inventions · 1656

balance wheel with balance spring by Robert Hooke and Christiaan Huygens

Inventions · 1657

the division (÷) sign, credited to Johann Rahn

Inventions · 1659

Robert Hooke discovers cells using microscope

Inventions · 1665

Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden)

Inventions · 1668

Phosphorus (Hennig Brand)

Inventions · 1669

grandfather clock

Inventions · 1670

1st Stradivarius violins

Inventions · 1680

ketchup

Inventions · 1682

Barclay's (UK)

Inventions · 1690

amaranth

Inventions · 1690

piano

Inventions · 1700

English agriculturist Jethro Tull invents the seed drill

Inventions · 1701

Herculaneum rediscovered during the drilling of a well

Inventions · 1709

Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano

Inventions · 1709

Englishmen John Shore invents the tuning fork

Inventions · 1711

Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine

Inventions · 1712

mercury thermometer

Inventions · 1714

Fahrenheit's mercury thermometer

Inventions · 1714

Edmond Halley invents the diving bell

Inventions · 1717

Brit John Harrison invents the grasshopper escapement for pendulum clocks

Inventions · 1722

French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher

Inventions · 1722

Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer

Inventions · 1724

sextant (credited to John Hadley/Thomas Godfrey)

Inventions · 1730

Cobalt, Atomic Number 27

Inventions · 1732

John Kay invents the flying shuttle

Inventions · 1733

Platinum, Atomic Number 78, discovered by Antonio de Ulloa

Inventions · 1735

E.G. von Kleist invents the Leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor

Inventions · 1745

artificial refrigeration demonstrated - William Cullen

Inventions · 1748

remains of a city not yet identified as Pompeii found

Inventions · 1748

lighting rod (non-grounded), called lightning attractor or Franklin rod, by Benjamin Franklin

Inventions · 1749