Middle Ages to 16th Century
Category: Otro
Actualizado: 10 feb 2018
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Created byRafelle Marie Timog Allego
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Gerardus Mercator helps to revolutionize navigation with better mapmakingA Dutch spectacle maker named Zacharias Janssen makes the first compound microscopeSir John Harington describes one of the first modern flush toiletsWindmills are invented in the Middle EastChinese develop eyeglasses by fixing lenses to frames that fit onto people's facesArabic engineer al-Jazari invents a flushing hand-washing machine, one of the ancestors of the modern toiletJohannes Gutenberg pioneers the modern printing press, using rearrangeable metal letters called movable typePeríodos
Chinese invent gunpowder and fireworksThanks to inventors such as the Banū Mūsā
brothers and al-Jazari, the Islamic "Golden Age"
sees the development of a wide range of
technologies, including ingenious clocks and
feedback mechanisms that are the ancestors of
modern automated factory machines
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