Science and technology inventions 1500-1700

Answer 1

There is the

Pocket Watch by Peter Henlein.

Mercator Map Projection by Gerard Mercator

Knitting machine by William Lee

Microscope by Robert Hooke

Thermometer

Lead Pencil

Answer 2

1752

• Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.

1755

• Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary on April 15th after nine years of writing. In the preface Samuel Johnson wrote, "I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven."

1757

• John Campbell invents the sextant.

1758

• Dolland invents a chromatic lens.

1761

• Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.

1764

• James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.

1767

• Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.

1768

• Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.

1769

• James Watt invents an improved steam engine.

1774

• Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.

1775

• Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
• Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.

1776

• David Bushnell invents a submarine.

1779

• Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.

1780

• Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
• Gervinus invents the circular saw.

1783

• Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
• Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
• The Montgolfier brothers invent the hot-air balloon.
• Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.

1784

• Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
• Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.

1785

• Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
• Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
• Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
• Jean Pierre Blanchard invents a working parachute.

1786

• John Fitch invents a steamboat.

1789

• The guillotine is invented.

1790

• The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.

1791

• John Barber invents the gas turbine. Early bicycles invented in Scotland.

1792

• William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
• The first ambulance.

1794

• Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
• Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.

1795

• Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.

1796

• Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.

1797

• Wittemore patents a carding machine.
• A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.

1798

• The first soft drink invented.
• Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.

1799

• Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
• Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.

1800

• Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
• Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.

1804

• Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
• Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive. Unfortunately, the machine was too heavy and broke the very rails it was traveling on.

1809

• Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.

1810

• German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
• Peter Durand invents the tin can.

1814

• George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive.
• The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
• German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
• Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph. He took the picture by setting up a machine called the camera obscura in the window of his home in France. It took eight hours for the camera to take the picture.

1815

• Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.

1819

• Samuel Fahnestock patents a soda fountain.
• René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.

1823

• Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.

1824

• Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
• Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.

1825

• William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.

1827

• John Walker invents modern matches.
• Charles Wheatstone was the first person to coin the phrase microphone.

1829

• American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
• Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing for the blind. William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.

1830

• Frenchmen, Barthelemy Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.

1831

• American, Cyrus McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
• Michael Faraday invents a electric dynamo.

1832

• The first patented stereoscope was invented by Charles Wheatstone in 1832 and patented in 1838.

1834

• Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
• Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator type device - an ether ice machine.

1835

• Englishmen, Henry Talbot invents calotype photography.
• Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
• Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
• Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.

1836

• Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson co-invent the propellor.
• Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.

1837

• Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
• English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.

1838

• Samual Morse invents Morse Code.

I839

• American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
• American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
• Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
• Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
• Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.

1840

• Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.

1841

• Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.

1842

• Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.

1843

• Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.

1844

• Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.

1845

• American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
• Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.

1846

• Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.

1847

• Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.

1848

• Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair.

1849

• Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.

1850

• Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher.

Answer 3

• Zacharias Janssen was the inventer of the compound microscope in the year 1595
• Martin Behaim was the maker of the globe in the year 1459-1537.
• Nicholas Jacques Conte made the first pencil in the year 1564 when a large mine or graphite was found but in the year 1795 he made the graphite into a dust to make it into all kinds of strenghts
• Galileo Galilei made the first thermometer in 1593

Answer 4

I think you mean 'science change' between these dates. This is a huge subject, but you might start by looking up the work of the following, in this order

Copernicus

Galileo - the first real experimental scientist

Hooke

Boyle

Newton

Much pioneering chemistry came later with Lavoisier and Dalton

Answer 5

what are some inventions made between 1700-1800

Answer 6

One invention that was created in the 1600's is the microscope.The Quadrent, Teloscope and Caravel ship were also invented

Also The first toilets with a flush on them appeared

Answer 7

The lead pencil in 1564 by Conrad Gressner

Answer 8

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