Medieval Technology & Advancement

Technology Down Through Time!

These centuries indicate the dates the technologies were adopted, not necessarily discovered or invented. These were often invented elsewhere, such as in China or the Arabic world, hundreds of years previously.
   

5th Century

  • Books
  • Quanat (Water Ducts)
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    6th Century

     
  • Astralabe
  • Breast-Strapped Horse Harness
  • Domed (Pendentive) Architecture
  • Horse Collar
  • Ship Mill
  • Tidal Mill
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    7th Century

  • Greek Fire
  • Soap
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    8th Century

  • Crucible Steel
  • Grenade
  • Hourglass
  • Stirrups
  • Three-Field System
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    9th Century

  • All Metal Lock & Key
  • Horseshoes
  • Moldboard Plow/Carucca
  • Quadrant
  • Rotary Grindstone
  • Selective Horse Breeding
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    10th Century

  • Alembic (Distilling)
  • Fork
  • Hops in Beer
  • Polyphany/Tonal Harmony
  • Reduction Furnace
  • University
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    11th Century

  • Damascus Steel
  • Forest Glass
  • Horizontal Loom
  • Kight’s/Cantled Saddle
  • Saw Mill
  • Silk
  • Spurs
  • Vertical Windmill
  • Water Mill
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    12th Century

  • Arabic numerals
  • Artesian Wells
  • Astronomical Tables
  • Chimney
  • Counterweight Trebuchet
  • Flying Buttress
  • Glass Mirror
  • Navigational Compass
  • Numeral 0
  • Oil Paints
  • Rat Traps
  • Rib Vault
  • Scientific Method
  • Trip Hammer/Water Hammer
  • Wheelbarrow
  • Wine Press
  • 13th Century

  • Blast Furnace
  • Bricks (in Britain)
  • Buttonholes
  • Eyeglasses
  • Floating Crane
  • Glassmaking
  • Gunpowder
  • Magnets
  • Musical Notation
  • Paddle-Wheel Boat
  • Paper
  • Percussion Drilling
  • Rotating Bookmark
  • Stationary Dockside Crane
  • Treadwheel Crane
  • Verge Escapement
  • Watermark
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    14th Century

  • Banking
  • Cannon
  • Cast Iron
  • Compound Crank
  • Cross Staff
  • Distilled Liquor (Gin, Brandy, etc.)
  • Dry Compass
  • Mechanical Clock
  • Playing Cards
  • Proto-Corporation
  • Segmental Arch Bridge
  • Stern-Post Mounted Rudder
  • Volley Gun/Ribauldequin
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    15th Century

  • Chess
  • Coffee
  • Dive Suit
  • Moveable Type Printing Press
  • Orerry
  • Rolling Mill (Soft Metal, Iron)
  • Spinning Wheel
  • War Wagon
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    16th Century

  • Hot Rolled Steel
  • Stock Market
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