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Middle Ages to 16th Century
Created by
Rafelle Marie Timog Allego
⟶ Updated 10 Feb 2018 ⟶
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Events
Gerardus Mercator helps to revolutionize navigation with better mapmaking
A Dutch spectacle maker named Zacharias Janssen makes the first compound microscope
Sir John Harington describes one of the first modern flush toilets
Windmills are invented in the Middle East
Chinese develop eyeglasses by fixing lenses to frames that fit onto people's faces
Arabic engineer al-Jazari invents a flushing hand-washing machine, one of the ancestors of the modern toilet
Johannes Gutenberg pioneers the modern printing press, using rearrangeable metal letters called movable type
Periods
Chinese invent gunpowder and fireworks
Thanks 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