Renaissance (1400-1700)

5 inventions

Movable type revolutionized information distribution. Gutenberg borrowed money from Johann Fust and ...

Drebble built the first navigable submarine for King James I. It was powered by oars and could stay ...

Leeuwenhoek ground lenses that magnified 270x, revealing bacteria, sperm, and blood cells. He never ...

Galileo did not invent the telescope but was first to point it at the sky. He discovered Jupiters mo...

Both discovered it independently, leading to a bitter dispute. Newton developed it first but Leibniz...