MEDIEVAL / MIDDLE

AGES
INVENTIONS
 Mechanical Clock
 It was during the High Middle Ages that new
methods of time-keeping were discovered and
new instruments discovered for the purpose.
 One of these clocks was built by a monk at
Glastonbury in the 14th century and exists to
this day.
 Gunpowder
 Gunpowder had many impacts during the middle
ages
 Gunpowder is the one of the most important
inventions that was created during the Middle Ages.
 Gunpowder was the first chemical explosive
invented, and it was created in the 9th century by the
Chinese.
 It is a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium
nitrate. With the sulfur and charcoal acting as fuels.
 Tidal Mill
 Tidal mills were first used during the 7th
century CE. They were first pioneered in
England. We do not know who built the first
tidal mill.
 Tidal mills were built in order to make
grinding grain in mills easier
  Coffee House
 Coffee was cultivated in Africa as early as the
9th century, but it did not reach Europe until
the 17th century
 Coffee is the second-most traded commodity in
the world, behind only petroleum, and has
become a mainstay of the modern diet.
 Eyeglasses
 The concepts of magnification and optics in
general are ancient, but it wasn’t until the
medieval period that lenses became wearable
(and fashionable!).
  Historians have estimated that the first
European glasses were invented around the
1280s CE in Italy, based partly on this sermon
by Fra Giordano of Pisa in 1306:
 Warfare Cannon
 The The cannon was a crucial invention during the
Middle Ages, but also for the rest of the world. 
 . Cannons were one of the biggest firearms that led to
revolutionary wins in battles and wars that affected
the world as a whole. 
 The cannon was created based off of the artillery use
of gunpowder.
 Cannons were created to be metal cylinders, that
contained a cannonball at one end, and was able to be
ignited at the other, causing the cannon to go off.
Warfare Canon
 Paper money
 During the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE),
however, merchants began to leave those
heavy strings of coins with a trustworthy agent,
who would record how much money the
merchant had on deposit on a piece of paper. 
 In the 1100s, Song authorities decided to take
direct control of this system, issuing the
world's first proper, government-produced
paper money. This money was called jiaozi. 
 Astrolabe
 The astrolabe was a key astronomical instrument
during the Middle Ages.
 It can be used to tell the time, measure the heights of
stars and buildings, and for many other calculations
and observations
 This large brass instrument probably made in the 14th
century, is typical of medieval English astrolabes. It
has been engraved for the latitude 52 degrees
 The rete, a cut-out plate with pointers showing the
position of stars, rotates over the projection
 Liquor
 In the Middle Ages, however, concerns over
purity, medical recommendations and its low
prestige of water made it less favored.
 Alcoholic beverages were always preferred.
They were seen as more nutritious and
beneficial to digestion than water, with the
invaluable bonus of being less prone to
putrefaction due to the alcohol content.
 Wheelborrow
 The first wheelbarrows seem to have been created
in China—along with the first gunpowder, paper, 
seismoscopes, paper currency, magnetic
compasses, crossbows, and many other key inventions.
 The earliest evidence of Chinese wheelbarrows is
found in illustrations dated around 100 CE, during
the Han dynasty.
 These wheelbarrows had a single wheel at the front of
the load, and the operator holding the handles carried
about half the weight
  Group 2 Members:
 Adlog
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 Parole
 Enero
 Diamante
 Pasagdan
 Allion
 Palmero