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The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant technological inventions ... 16th century: Chintz or printed clothing in ...
Related article: List of 16th century inventions. The Columbian Exchange introduces many plants, animals and diseases to the Old and New Worlds. Introduction of the spinning wheel revolutionizes textile production in Europe. The letter J is introduced into the English alphabet. 1500: First portable watch is created by Peter Henlein of Germany.
16th century: Lodovico Ferrari solves the general quartic equation (by reducing it to the case with zero quartic term). 16th century: François Viète discovers Vieta's formulas. 16th century: François Viète discovers Viète's formula for π. [118] 1500: Scipione del Ferro solves the special cubic equation = +. [119] [120]
1655 - Stephan Farffler was a Nuremberg watchmaker of the seventeenth century whose invention of a manumotive carriage in 1655 is widely considered to have been the first self-propelled wheelchair. 1662 – Blaise Pascal invents a horse-drawn public bus which has a regular route, schedule, and fare system.
Early 16th century: Paracelsus, an alchemist by trade, rejects occultism and pioneers the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine. Burns the books of Avicenna, Galen and Hippocrates. [49] Hieronymus Fabricius [36] His "Surgery" is mostly that of Celsus, Paul of Aegina, and Abulcasis citing them by name. [50] Caspar Stromayr [36] [51]
During the 16th century, timekeepers became more refined and sophisticated, so that by 1577 the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was able to obtain the first of four clocks that measured in seconds, [113] and in Nuremberg, the German clockmaker Peter Henlein was paid for making what is thought to have been the earliest example of a watch, made in ...
By the early 16th century, the Javanese were locally-producing large guns, some of them still survived until the present day and dubbed as "sacred cannons" or "holy cannons". These cannons varied between 180- and 260-pounders, weighing anywhere between 3 and 8 tons, length of them between 3 and 6 m (9.8 and 19.7 ft).
1784 – The invention of the Lavoisier Meusnier iron-steam process, [1] generating hydrogen by passing water vapor over a bed of red-hot iron at 600 °C. [2] 1785 – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier builds the hybrid Rozière balloon. 1787 – Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau and others give hydrogen its name (Gk: hydro = water, -genes = born ...