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Galileo: Telescope
Used to see distant objects of the sky that can´t be seen with the naked eye.Was important because in the XVII century this instrument was used to detect possible invasions by sea. -
Blaise Pascal: Adding Machine
It became the prototype of modern calculators. Was ussed to calculate taxes. -
Torricelli: Mercury Barometer
·To measure atmospheric pressure.
·Consists of a glass tube filled with mercury and inverted in a cuvette filled at the same time with mercury. -
Otto Von Guericke: The pump of air
It allowed measure the density of air. Consisted of a piston which was united to a cylinder that acted as a pistol of air. -
Christian Huygens: Pendulum Clock
It allowed measure time more accurately, which solution a lot of mechanics problems. -
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek: 1st Microscope
Consists in a lens attached to a rod.To "unlock the mysteries of everything from bits of cheese to complex insect eyes". -
Robert Boyle: Gas Law
The presssure of a gas in a closed container is inversely proportional to the volume of the container when the temperature is constant. -
Robert Hooke: Cell
He discovered the cell from a piece of cork.Also studied the cellular composition of plants.With a microscope made by himself,he discovered dead plant cells. -
Isaac Newton: Law of Gravitation
It sets the force which two bodies are attract for the simple fact of have mass. Also invented the Calculation Infinitesimal. -
Carlos Linneo: System of nomenclature binomial
Consists in the classification of living organisms(mainly plants).He tried to give name to all kinds of things or objects. -
Benjamin Franklin: Lightning Rod
Its objective is attract a ray ionized of air for drive the discharge towards the Earth,of such way that not cause hurt to people. -
Morgagni: Anatomic Study
He wrote books that described numerous anatomical structures that today have their name.One of his most famous books is "De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis"(" On the locations and causes of diseases investigated from the anatomical point of view"). -
Henri Cavendish: Hydrogen
studing the composition of the water, he discovered that it was compound of oxygen and hydrogen. -
James Hargreaves: Spinning Wheel
became a machine commonly used in home.It worked with human energy.Improved the quality of clothes. -
Joseph Priestley: Oxygen
discovered the oxygen from an experiment.He introduced an adult mouse in a glass apparatus filled air from mercury calcined,He tought that the mouse would not survive more than fifteen minutes but he remained conscious half an hour, resulting the air found good or better than the common air. -
Lavoiser: Conservation of the mass
Means that the matter doesn´t create or destroy, but it remains constant after being transformed.He also gave the name to the gas "Oxygen". -
Richard Trevithick: Railway
Transport for people and merchandise. The train is pulled by a locomotive, that genered the energy necessary to move the whole: the people and the locomotive.
