Chart on Renaissance Inventions
For Module 8, complete this chart. Name 8 things that were invented during the Renaissance
period using your notes. Explain what that invention helped make easier. Explain how these
inventions continue to be improved up today.
What was the invention?
What did it help with?
How has this invention been
improved today?
telling time
they are battery powered
instead of someone having to
crank them all day
1.
clocks
2.
watch
telling time on the go
made them to go on your wrist
instead of in your pocket
3.
eyeglasses
4.
reading
steering a ship
they help people see as well as
read
slowly just improved overtime
rudder
5.
measure the temperature
can measure the
temperature up to a certain
extent
thermometer
6.
submarine
to go underwater for long
periods of time without getting
wet
7.
can go deeper and stay under
longer
better safety improvements
match
8.
a flame that is lit to start a bigger
fire/flame
a digital calculator machine
adding machine
now they are handheld