Renaissance

Inventions of the Renaissance

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  • Jan 1, 1440

    Printing Press

    Printing Press
    This is Johannes Gutenberg's model of the printing press. This is known as the first model. The printing press allowed the Renaissance to travel faster and farther and allowed to mass produce texts and scriptures. It is known as one of the most influential inventions of the European Renaissance and is basically what we know as a modern day copy machine. It allowed to mass produce texts and accelerated the spread of the Renaissance.
  • Jan 1, 1475

    Italian Oil Paint

    Italian Oil Paint
    This is the painting, "A Portrait of a Man" by Antonello. Many people believe that Antonello introduced oil paint to Venice. This became important to the Renaissance, because many paintings with oil were made in Venice. Venice started to create their own style of art. The Venetian style of art had incorporated many patterns and used the reflective property of oil paint heavily.

  • Microscope

    Microscope
    In 1595 the first microscope was invented by two Dutchmen named Hans and Zacharias Janssen. They produced this compound microscope by putting two convex lenses inside a tube. In 1674 Anton Van Leeuwenhoek learned to improve magnification by polishing the lenses. In 1683 Anton Van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria. He looked at his saliva through the microscope and noticed something unusual, henceforth discovering bacteria.

  • Flushing Toilet

    Flushing Toilet

  • Telescope

    Telescope
    In 1609, three conflicting patents for the telescope are filed - the patents are not given, but this is the first official recognition of the telescope.
    Hans Lippershey, Zaccharius Jansen, and Jacob Metius all attempted to file a patent for the item, but Hans Lippershey recieved credit since he applied first and there was no evidence to suggest he had not developed it himself.

  • Pendulum Clock

    Pendulum Clock
    A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. These clocks were correct within one minute of a day, later models were precise within less than ten seconds a day. In 1635, Galileo designed a clock using a pendulum as the timekeeping element. Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens designed and commissioned the first working model, in 1656.