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Renaissance inventions
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Complete this word puzzle to reveal
the full name of the Renaissance
architect who invented the first
portable clocks in 1410. His name
reads vertically down the shaded
squares in the completed puzzle.
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Clues
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Italian town where the first portable clocks were
developed
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People who first used gunpowder-fired rockets as
weapons of war
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The type of toilet developed by Sir John
Harrington
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German town where the first Bible was published
in 1456
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Device thought to have been invented by
Zacharius Janssen and his father
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Book published in 1665 that made people take
the microscope more seriously
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Type of spectacle lens Pope Leo X shown to be
wearing in paintings
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Surname of the man who invented the match in
1680
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Last word in surname of the man who built and
tested the first submarine
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Planet around which Galileo Galilei discovered
four moons
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Surname of the man who invented the printing
press in 1436
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Country in which first printing mill built in 1496
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Last word in surname of the man who first used a
microscope to study bacteria
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One of the devices used to measure time before
portable clocks were invented
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Country in which Gutenberg’s printing press was
developed
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River in which the first submarine was tested
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Device invented by Robert Boyle in 1680
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First name of the father of Zacharius Janssen
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Surname of the man who invented the first flush
toilet
References:
inventions-puzzle.pdf
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SOSE Alive 2, pp. 80–1 • SOSE Alive History 1, pp. 200–201
• http://www.mce.k12tn.net/renaissance/inventions.htm
• http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/University/Inventions/Inventions.html
 John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 2004