For example: the blast furnace, canal lock, chimney, coal fire, glass window, eyeglasses, marine chart, waterwheel, printing press, suction pump, treadle loom, water-driven bellow, weight-driven clock, and windmill.
Over the following centuries, European inventers came on fire - amongst many other breakthroughs were the blast furnace, canal lock, chimney, coal fire, glass window, eyeglasses, marine chart, water wheel, printing press, suction pump, loom, water-driven bellows, weight-driven clock, and windmill.
Major technological advances included the invention of the windmill, the first mechanical clocks, the manufacture of distilled spirits, and the use of the astrolabe.
In smaller countries like the Netherlands and Switzerland, star architects like Rem Koolhaas and Peter Zumthor offer thoroughly modern interpretations of the national soul without resorting to windmills or cuckoo clocks.
Trying to make himself useful in all ways, Leibniz proposed that education be made more practical, that academies be founded; he worked on hydraulic presses, windmills, lamps, submarines, clocks, and a wide variety of mechanical devices; he devised a means of perfecting carriages and experimented with phosphorus.
At the height of the ranch's operations, in 1918, it had 132 windmills, and four crews of windmillers working around the clock to keep them up.
The best time of day to appreciate Solvang's charms are in the evenings, when the surrounding Santa Ynez mountains disappear in the golden light, and Solvang's gables, clock towers, spires and windmills are outlined in thousands of white electric lights arrayed along their edges.
As with many of the leading scientists of the age, he left behind in Grantham anecdotes about his mechanical ability and his skill in building models of machines, such as clocks and windmills.
The Dominy dynasty, founded around 1760 by a patriarch named Nathaniel, made furniture, clocks, spinning wheels, coffins and the occasional windmill.
The hawthorn may be as old, if not older, than the stone tower of the windmill, which was first mentioned in local records in 1714 and which stopped like a clock when struck by lightning in 1850.
