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What were the significant technological developments in the Late Middle Ages and how were they responsible for expanding the European economy?
There were many technological advances of the late middle ages, and they influenced the economy in many different ways. Some of them include the following:
- The printing press, which was probably invented in the late 14th century by adapting presses used for pressing grapes or for pressing cloth and used for printing wood block artwork
- Movable type, which I personally think was invented by a man named Laurens Janszoon Coster in the Netherlands in about 1410 to 1420 (There is a link below to a related question on this.)
- The type mold, which was probably invented by Gutenberg and made printing with movable type practical by making type that was sufficiently mechanically uniform to use in a printing press
- The blast furnace, which very much increased both quality and quantity of steel
- Rotary grind stones, which made it far less expensive to produce blades, but also eventually made it possible to shape steel in ways never before done
- Oil based paint, which made it possible to made highly detailed artwork and also made possible oil based printers ink
- Crank and connecting rod, which was a fundamental invention for mechanisms and enabled new kinds of machines
- Cranked hoist and reel, which was used in ports for the recently invented new types of cranes, and for many other purposes
- Paddle wheels, which were used for pumping and low head water power, and were adapted much later for propulsion.
I think the economic benefits of most of these inventions are obvious. I am sorry if I seem a little partisan on the subject of the movable type and printing press, but I don't think I really am. I have studied this since I worked as a type caster many years ago, and came to realize there was a great deal more to the invention of printing than most people realize; it was not a simple invention that one person could have dreamed up in a short time, but the combination of many inventions into a rather complicated system.
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