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  • 1510: Leonardo da Vinci designs a horizontal water wheel

  • 1510: Peter Henlein invents the pocket watch

  • 1513: Urs Graf invents etching

  • 1537: Tartaglia's gunner's quadrant for aiming cannon, 1st firing tables

  • 1540: Toriano invents a mandolin-playing automaton

  • 1543: John Dee creates a wooden beetle that can fly for an undergraduate production - one of the first robots

  • 1550: John Dee, 'the guiding spirit' of the English school of mathematicians wrote a notable preface to the first edition in English of Euclid's Elements of Geometry

  • 1565: Conrad Gesner of Switzerland invents the pencil

  • 1568: Bottled beer is invented in London

  • 1569: Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection

  • 1582: Pope Gregory XIII invents the modern, Gregorian calendar

  • 1583: Leonard and Thomas Digges invent the telescope

  • 1589: William Lee invents the knitting machine

  • 1590: Dutchmen, Hans & Zacharias Janssen invent the compound microscope

  • 1591: Sir John Harington invents the flush toilet in England

  • 1593: Francis Bacon invented the frozen chicken

  • 1593: Galileo invents a water thermometer

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