Some of my favorites:
600s: Horse shoes become common.
793: A paper factory is opened in Bagdad. (Not widespread in Europe
until the 13th century).
800s: Horse collar first appears in European countries. Soap also
spreads throughout Europe.
10th Century: the use of hops in the brewing of beer starts to spread
(between 10th and 14th centuries).
11th century: horizontal loom. Mechanized in the 12th century.
1126: percussion drilling used by Carthusian monks.
1170s: rat traps are well known.
1180: first recorded use of glass mirros.
1185: first recorded use of windmills.
12th c: compass in use by western europe
1285: spectacles invented in Italy.
13th century: my favorite - Arabic numbers used in Europe (and
outlawed in Italy for a time)
13th c: first illustration of a wheelbarrow.
14th c: cannon first used.
What I love about the middle ages in Europe was that although not much
science was done, there was a ton of engineering occuring during that
period.
- Midair
From: "Charles J. Cohen" <charles@mynah.eecs.umich.edu>
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