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Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
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The earliest human-powered submarine invented by Cornelis Drebbel.
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William Oughtred invents a slide rule.
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Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.
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Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
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W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
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Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
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Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
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Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
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Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
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Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region.
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James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
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Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
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The first reference to a candy cane is made. Dom Pérignon invents Champagne.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria with a microscope.
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Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch.
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Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
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Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
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Englishmen, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
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The Long or "Kentucky" Rifle is designed. This is a big deal because it uses rifling to make the bullet spin as it goes throught th barrel increasinng accuracy so human wave tactics aren't nessecary.
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Improved horse drawn hoe that also plants the seeds in uniform rows. Invented by Jethro Tull
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The harpsicord evolves into the Piano with the help of Bartolomeo Cristofor
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Need a way to tune the Piano. Invented by John Shore
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The beginning of the industrial work horse. To bad it's just a patent. Thomas Newcomen a blacksmith invented the idea
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Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
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French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher
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Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
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An improvement to looms this allows for a spool to be slid quickly into the weave. Invented by John Kay
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E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
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Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
