What technology was there in the 1600s?

1608

• Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.

• The earliest human-powered submarine invented by Cornelis Drebbel.

• William Oughtred invents a slide rule.

• Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.

• Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.

• W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.

• Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.

• Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.

• Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.

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