Young Studio of History
Presenting...European Renaissance: Inventors + Inventions
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Giant Crossbow
- invented in 1486
- designed mainly intimidation- designed to fire large stone's instead of giant arrows to cause an outbreak of panic
- the arm was approximately 24 meters long
Clock (more advanced)
- invented sometime between 1452-1519
- created a more accurate clock with 2 separate hands- one for minutes and one for hours
- this lead to a more accuracy on the past clocks
Johannes Gutenberg
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Printing Press
- by 1450 the printing press was in action
- considered one of the most significant inventions of the Middle Ages- enabled the fast flow of information and lead to the spread of new ideas
Zacharias Janssen
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Compound Microscope
- invented in 1590
- had 3 sliding tubes for different lenses- objective lens is positioned close to the object + produces an image that is picked up by the second lens, called the eye piece
Galileo Galilei
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Thermometer
- invented a little before the 1600's
- a tall, sealed glass cylinder containing clear liquid in which several small glass bulbs are floating- as the temperature changes, these bulbs rise + sink, indicating the temperature of the surrounding air