Inventions, Discoveries and Introductions By Year
- List of 12th century inventions
- 1104—The Venice Arsenal of Venice, Italy, is founded. It employed some 16000 people for the mass production of sailing ships in large assembly lines, hundreds of years before the Industrial Revolution.
- 1106—Finished building of Gelati.
- 1107—The Chinese engineer Wu Deren combines the mechanical compass vehicle of the south-pointing chariot with the distance-measuring odometer device.
- 1111—The Chinese Donglin Academy is founded.
- 1165—The Liuhe Pagoda of Hangzhou, China, is built.
- 1170—The Christian notion of Purgatory is born.
- 1185—First record of windmills.
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