Inventions of the Renaissance Period
 

 

 

Choose an invention from the list below and complete your reserach worksheet.
Leonardo da Vinci
 The airplane
 The helicopter
 The parachute
 The submarine
 The armored car
 Rapid-fire guns
 Ball bearings
 1510: Leonardo da Vinci designs a horizontal water wheel
Other Inventors & Inventions
 1400: Golf Balls
 1400: 1st Piano called Spinet
 1411: Trigger
 1420: Oil Paining
 1421: Hoisting Gear
 1450: spectacles for nearsighted people invented by Nicholas of Cusa
 1455: Johannes Gutenberg invents Printing Press with movable type
 1475: muzzle-loaded rifle
 1486: copyright granted
 1487: Bell chimes
 1492: Martin Behaim invented the first map globe
 1496:Wallpaper
 1500: Wheel-Lock Musket
 1510: Peter Henlein invented the pocket watch
 1537: Tartaglia's gunner's quadrant for aiming cannon, 1st firing tables
 1543: John Dee creates a wooden beetle that can fly for an undergraduate production - one of the first robots
 1565: Conrad Gesner invents the graphite pencil
 1581:Galileo, an Italian scientist, discovered the pendulum for use in clocks
 1582: Pope Gregory XIII invents the modern, Gregorian calendar
 1583: Leonard and Thomas Digges invent the telescope
 1589: William Lee invents the knitting machine called the stocking frame
 1590: Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope
 1593: Francis Bacon invented the frozen chicken
 1593: Galileo Galilei invents a water thermometer
 1608: Hans Lippershey invents the refractin telescope
 1620: Cornelis Drebbel invents the human-powered submarine
 1624: William Oughtred invents a slide rule
 1625: Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion
 1629: Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine
 1642: Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine
 1643: Evangelista Rorricelli invents the barometer

Great Inventors to Research
-Galileo
-Copernicus
-Kepler
-Leonardo da Vinci
-Vesalius
-Brunelleschi
-Guttenberg

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