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Renaissance technology was the set of European artifacts and inventions which spread through the Renaissance period, roughly the 14th century through the 16th century. The era is marked by profound technical advancements such as the printing press, linear perspective in drawing, patent law, double shell domes and bastion fortresses.
Jarves solved the red lead problem in the early 19th century when he developed a way to make red lead using domestic sources. [19] Finally, high quality sand was necessary to make high quality crystal glassware. England controlled the supply of high quality sand, and brought it to the United States as ballast in their ships.
By the end of that century, this Walloon process spread to the Pay de Bray on the eastern boundary of Normandy, and then to England, where it became the main method of making wrought iron by 1600. It was introduced to Sweden by Louis de Geer in the early 17th century and was used to make the oregrounds iron favoured by English steelmakers.
The doughnut has a long history, supposedly a Dutch creation exported to New Amsterdam (present-day New York City) in the 1600s under the Dutch name of olykoeks—"oily cakes". However, the ring-shaped doughnut with a "hole" in the center is thought to be an American creation, supposedly invented in 1847 by Captain Hanson Gregory of Clam Cove ...
The organisation of production evolved from the small-scale family-run glass houses typical of forest glass-making to large monopolies granted by the Crown. [2] The influx of immigrants from Europe brought changes in furnace technology and raw materials, creating a better quality glass.
1550-1600 – Armazine and Bombazine introduced for the first time in United Kingdom. 1590 – First reference to Cambric fabric. [11] 1840 – Barathea developed as a cloth for mourning clothes. [12] 1892 – Cross, Bevan & Beadle invent Viscose. 1938 – First commercial nylon fiber production by DuPont. Nylon is the first synthetic non ...
The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...
[18] (to 1600) 1599: March, Leaving Europe the previous year, a fleet of eight ships under Jacob van Neck was the first Dutch fleet to reach the ‘Spice Islands’ of Maluku. [18] 1600: Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy in Rome. Siege of Fiľakovo castle during the Long Turkish War; 1600: Battle of Sekigahara in Japan.