Renaissance Invention
Clocks
The 1st automatic clock was made up in the early 1300′s. With this innovation time started to be measured in hours (24 hours matching a day). Galileo, an Italian scientist, found out the pendulum in 1581. The pendulum greatly bettered the continuous movement of the hands or bell of a clock. The average mistake with the pendulum changed just by seconds every day. Before this the fault was from 10 to 15 minutes a daytime.
During the 1600′s the metal gear, or toothed wheel, and the usage of the screw in setting up the clocks were 1st applied.
Glasses or eyeglasses
Historiographers are not sure who made up the 1st eyeglasses. In the late thirteen century over 1287 paintings 1st came out with people wearing or holding spectacles. From these paintings we know that eyeglasses were made up in Italy.
Around 1300 the Venetian Glassmaker’s Guild made rules on glasses. They made it prohibited for eyeglasses to be made with glass lenses in place of the more of value rock crystal.
In 1352 spectacles were just worn by the knowledgeable, very rich nobles or well read Italian clergy. At this time a monk called Tommaso da Modena certificated the church had painted a fresco with an older churchman wearing eyeglasses while looking over an old holograph.
In 1456 Gutenberg made up the printing press. This produced a widespread of books. Once people owned books reading eyeglasses started to be seen in the hands of the folk. These eyeglasses were made up with a variety of fabrics letting in wood, lead, copper, bone, leather, and even horn.
In 1623 the Spanish made up the 1st ranked lenses. This bettered the trial and error way of trying on different lenses till one pair assisted the wearer to see better.
Lavatory
Sir John Harrington, godson to Queen Elizabeth, made the 1st flush toilet for himself and his godmother in 1596. He was fluffed by his friends and never made another one although he and Queen Elizabeth carried on to apply the one he did create.
Two hundred years afterwards Alexander Cummings reinvented the flush toilet further commonly called the water closet. Cummings made up the flog. The flog was a sliding valve between the bowl and the trap.
2 years afterwards in 1777 Samuel Prosser utilized for and received a patent for a plunger closet. A year afterwards Joseph Bramah made up a valve at the bottom of the bowl that worked on a flexible joint.


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