What is the Elizabeth era?

The Elizabethan era in literature is a body of works written during the reign of Elizabeth I of England
(1558-1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history and it’s been widely
romanticized in books, movies, plays, and TV series.

According to Elizabethan Inventions the Renaissance and Elizabethan Inventions and Inventors Timeline
are as followed:

I. 1450:Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press with movable type in Germany
Johannes Gutenberg, born c. 1395, Mainz—died probably Feb. 3, 1468, Mainz, German inventor
of a method of printing from movable type. Born to a patrician family in Mainz, he apparently
worked at such crafts as goldsmithing and gem cutting in Mainz and Strasbourg and was
experimenting with printing by 1438.

II. 1510:Leonardo da Vinci designs a horizontal water wheel

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was born in Anchiano, Tuscany (now Italy), close to the town of
Vinci that provided the surname we associate with him today. In his own time he was known
just as Leonardo or as “Il Florentine,” since he lived near Florence—and was famed as an artist,
inventor and thinker.
III. :Peter Henlein invents the pocket watch
Peter Henlein was born in 1485, and very little is known about his early life. It is most probable
that he became apprentice 1510as a repair man and locksmith. His appearance in history books
start on September 7, 1504 after he was involved in a brawl in which his friend and fellow
locksmith George Glaser was killed.

IV. 1513:Urs Graf invents etching

Urs Graf was a Swiss Renaissance goldsmith, painter and printmaker, as well as a Swiss
mercenary. He only produced two etchings, one of which dates from 1513 – the earliest known
etching for which a date has been establishekd.
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V. 1537: Tartaglia’s gunner’s quadrant for aiming cannon, 1 st firing tables
Tartaglia also invented the gunner's quadrant by which a master gunner calculated and set the
elevation of the barrel to meet the desired range according to a preset table divided into
degrees, and indicated by a plumb line. Finally, he calculated maximum effective ranges for
several known artillery types.

VI. 1540: Tariano invents a mandolin-playing automatonThe first android in the Western World, a
completely mechanical figure which simulated a living human or animal, operating with
apparently responsive action, is believed to have been constructed in 1525 by Hans Bullmann (?-
1535) of Nuremberg, Germany. Bullmann actually reportedly produced a number of extremely
ingenious figures of men and women that moved and played musical instruments, for which
Ferdinand I, the Holy Roman emperor, summoned him to Vienna, for whom Bullmann produced
a variety of novelties before to return to Nuremberg. Bullmann was an ingenuous master
locksmith and mechanic, who is known also to be the first to set up a true astronomical clock
and to invent the letter lock. Unfortunately, neither a working mechanism, nor a description of
his devices survived to the present time.
VII. 1543:John Dee creates a wooden beetle that can fly for an underfraduate production-one of the
first robots
John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer,
teacher, occultist and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I,
and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy.