What are some of the inventions of the middle(dark) ages?
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During the 12th and 13th century in Europe there was a radical change in the rate of new inventions, innovations in the ways of managing traditional means of production, and economic growth. The period saw major technological advances, including the invention of cannons, spectacles and artesian wells; and the cross-cultural introduction of gunpowder, silk, compass and astrolabe from the east. There were also great improvements with ships and upon the clock. The latter advances made possible the dawn of the Age of Exploration.
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Here's an interesting page about early PC's. Keep scrolling down when the page opens.  It's rather interesting. \nhttp://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml\n\nAnd, here's Wiki's entry:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
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I'm not sure if you will be able to find any patent information going back to 1748.  You might try your local county library and see what resources they have.
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back in the middle ages it was called All fools Day see link below.
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Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb, the phonograph, automatic telegraph, motograph, paraffin paper(which was used to wrap candy), electric pen, carbon rheostat, microtasimeter, sockets, switches, insulating tape, gummed paper tape, magnetic ore separator, life-sized electric railway, motion picture camera, steel alkaline storage battery, and many other things.  He had 1,368 different patents.
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Please refer to :\nhttp://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_era\nYou'll get all the details you sekk.
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600 B.C. \n\nCheck out this site for more information: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmegaphone.htm
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he few roads that still existed were in a bad state, bridges were scarce, and brigands were common. For this reason during the Dark Ages, which lasted until about 1000 A.D., populations were tightly bound to the land surrounding the feudal lord's castle. People moved about only when there were festivals in other cities. These were the only occasions on which people could buy or look at different goods and have a chance to sell their own food or objects and fabrics made for sale. Fear controlled people’s lives and induced them to ask for protection from powerful warriors who had constructed well-defended castles, or from monasteries, which did not have soldiers but did have thick walls to hide behind. Life was hard, and , people thought little of clothing. Clothes were often made at home and were often rough and shapeless. Trousers, tunics and shawls were used to keep away the cold. The shawls were made of wool or fur and put over the shoulder. Most Europeans were dressed like today’s Benedictine monks, except for men’s trousers. Shoes were leather wrapped around the foot. Colors were plain; they were shades of gray, brown, dark blue and red. Conical hats were commonly worn.\n\nThis was a pyramidal society because the classes of people were in a shape of a pyramid.. with the kings and queens at the top of the pyramid (and were few in number) down to the peasants (who were many in number). In the middle were feudal lords, clerics, and others, such as vassals.\n\nTAILORING\nIn the Middle Ages, for the wealthy, most clothes were created by tailors. Some fabrics tailors used were : Burnet, perse, lincoln scarlet, kersey, russet, chalons, damask, and sandal. (Most of the population, however, made their clothing themselves).\n\nCLOTHING\nOften, kings and queens would wear crowns and brightly colored silks. Obviously, their clothing was very expensive and only they had enough money to afford such beautiful things.\n\nShoemakers and their spouses often wore borealis hats. The clothes they wore with that were woolen coats with fur-trimmed sleeves. Inside the coat was a woolen doublet.\n\nHoly orders, such as friars, wore cloaks with hoods and habits. On their clothes was a rope belt with wooden beads for counting prayers.\n\nFelt hats with stirrups and brown jackets were the daily wear of manor lords. Peasants' daily wear was simple: straw hats that they made themselves, linen shirts that they made themselves, leather flasks, hoses (pants), and pewter badges or good luck charms.
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Here are some books on medieval Europe:\nhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=richkahmerfin-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&path=external-search%3Fsearch-type=ss%26index=blended%26keyword=medieval%20ring%20europe
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Dark ages preceded any expansation that you are referring to....
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He made inventions that changed the world.
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Even in Ancient Egypt they knew how to reflect light into a dark room.\n\nWe have been using mirrors and other reflective device to enhance the natural light of different object.  From light houses to gas lamps to solar heaters just to name a few.\n\nOne of the newest things to buy is the solatube (daylight pipe, light pipe,tubular skylight) that reflects sunlight down a tube to the room that you wish.  \n\nYou might just want to have a light color wall and carpets to lighten a room.
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It was invented in the middle east pre-1000AD.
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If you have the encarta encyclopedia program on your computer they have a list of inventions.  Just type in notable Inventions and Discoveries and it will bring up a table with all the info you need.
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try this http://www.maxmon.com/history.htm
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In the middle ages and renaissance in Europe, originally in their own clock towers with pendulums and wooden gears.\n\nFrom Wikipedia:  \n\n"Early mechanical clocks\nThere is a record that in 1176 Sens Cathedral installed a ‘horologe’—the word still used in French for large clocks. (from Greek hora, hour, and legein, to tell). This word has led scholars to believe that these tower clocks did not employ hands or dials, but “told” the time with audible signals such as bells.\n\nBetween 1280 and 1320 there is a sudden increase in references to clocks and horologes in church records, and this probably indicates that a new type of clock mechanism had been devised. Existing clock mechanisms that used water power were being adapted to take the driving power from falling weights. This power was controlled by some form of oscillating mechanism, probably derived from existing bell-ringing or alarm devices. This controlled release of power - the escapement - marks the beginning of the true mechanical clock.\n\nThese mechanical clocks were intended for two main purposes: for signalling and notification (e.g. the timing of services and public events), and for modelling the solar system. The former purpose is administrative, the latter arises naturally given the scholarly interest in astronomy, science, astrology, and how these subjects integrated with the religious philosopy of the time. The astrolabe was used both by astronomers and astrologers, and it was natural to apply a clockwork drive to the rotating plate to produce a working model of the solar system.\n\nSimple clocks intended mainly for notification were installed in towers, and did not always require dials or hands. They would have announced the canonical hours or intervals between set times of prayer. Canonical hours differ in length, and varied as the times of sunrise and sunset shifted. The more sophisticated astronomical clocks would have had dials and hands, and would have used various time systems, including Italian hours, canonical hours, and time as measured by astronomers at the time. Both styles of clock quickly started acquiring extravagant features such as automata.\n\nBy 1280 mechanical clock-making began in England, Italy, and France. In 1283 a large clock was installed at Dunstable Priory; its location above the rood screen suggests that it was not a water clock. In 1292, Canterbury Cathedral installs a 'great horloge'. Over the next 30 years there are brief mentions of clocks at a number of ecclesiastical institutions in England, Italy, and France. In 1322 a new clock was installed in Norwich, an expensive replacement for an earlier clock installed in 1273. This had a large 2 metre astronomical dial with automata and bells. The costs of the installation included the full-time employment of two technicians for two years.\n\nThe clocks constructed by Richard of Wallingford in St Albans by 1336, and by Giovanni da Dondi in Padua from 1348 to 1364, no longer exist but detailed descriptions of their design and construction survive, and modern reproductions have been made. They illustrate how quickly the theory of the mechanical clock had developed. It is not known how accurate or reliable these clocks would have been."
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Yeah you need to see what they have today, that technology is so fifteen years ago.  You don't find out about technology until its ancient history.