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11th, 12th, 13th, 14th Century Inventions - 1000 - 1399
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1023
  • First paper money printed in China.
1045
  • Movable type printing by Bi Sheng in China
Circa 1050
  • Crossbow invented in France.
1182 
  • Magnetic compass invented. 
Circa 1200
  • Clothing buttons invented.
1202
  • The Hindu-Arabic numbering system introduced to the west by Italian mathematician, Fibonacci.
1249
  • Rodger Bacon invented his gunpowder formula.
Circa 1250
  • Gun invented in China.
Circa 1268 - 1289
  •  Invention of eyeglasses.
Circa 1280
  • Mechanical clocks invented.
Circa 1285 - 1290
  • Windmills invented.
1295
  • Modern glassmaking begins in Italy.
1328
  • First sawmill.
1326
  • First mention of a handgun.
1366
  • Scales for weighing invented. 

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