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Inventions and Discoveries: Violin
A. D. 1781 1640 . 1789 1782 1796 1832 1815 B. C. 1300 Veneer-mill (Reenner, at Augsburg) A. D. 1565 Violin clavichord (Hohlfeld) 1757 Violin, was known as early as 800 Violin, in its present shape (Testatori, at Milan) 1620 Voltaic pile (Alex. Volta) 1800 Vulcanizing india-rubber (Lüdersdorf). 1832 WAFERS, about 1600 Waldhorn, known to the ancients. Waldhorn, the invention horn (Hempel) Waldhorn, keyed horn (Kölbel, at St. Petersburg) 1754 1760 Washing-machine (Stender) 1754 Watches, marine, chronometer (Harrison, in England) 1725 Watches, pocket (Peter Hele, at Nuremberg) 1510 Watches, with spiral spring, invented by Hautefeuille 1678 Water, decomposition of, by the galvanic current 1800 Water-clocks, as early as B. C. 400 400 Water-glass known to Pater Basilius Valentinus A. D. 1520 Water-glass applied in the arts by Fuchs at Munich 1818 Water-mill, the first in Rome, about the year I Water-spout machine (Winterfried, in the Hartz Mountains) 1769 Water-wheels known about. 7-800 Wax-painting B. C. 100 Weaving-machine, or loom (Braun, at Nimwegen) A. D. 1676 Weaving-machine (Jacquard) 1799 Wedgwood-ware (Joshua Wedgwood) 1755 Weighing-machine, patent (Schwilgué, at Strasbourg) 1800 Wells, bored (artesian), at Lillers, county of Artois. 1129 Wheel-clocks (Abbé Gerbert, in France, afterwards Pope Sylvester II.) 996 Wicks, chemically prepared, for stearine candles (Milly) 1830 Windmills, the first, in Europe about Wind regulator in the organ (Bishop).
Wire-drawing (Rudolph, at Nuremberg) Wire ropes (Albert, at Klausthal) Wolfram steel 0 A. D. 1856 Wood, art of engraving on, for seals, among the Egyptians; for calico in East Indies B. C. 1000 Wood, for printing pictures (Kepler, at Nördlingen) A. D. 1423 Wood, for printing pictures in several colors, chiaroscuro (Pilgrim) 1480 Wool-dyeing, introduced into England (Adrian Brauer) 1667 YARD, an English measure, founded on the length of the arm of King Edgar ZINC, known since about Zincography (Eberhardt) Zirconia, discovered by Klaproth Zirconium, produced by Berzelius IIOI 1450 • 1815 1789 :