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| c. 1660 |
| | | The berlin, developed in Berlin, becomes the most successful carriage of the seventeenth century | |
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| 1675 |
| | | Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, now develops the hairspring - of great future importance in watches | |
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| c. 1680 |
| | | The English clockmaker Thomas Tompion is the first to make successful use of the hairspring in pocket watches | |
|  | Pocket watch by Tompion
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| 1681 |
| | | The Canal du Midi is completed in France, including at one point a 160-metre tunnel through high ground | |
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| c. 1685 |
| | | Denis Papin, a French scientist working in England, demonstrates a pressure cooker fitted with a safety valve | |
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| 1690 |
| | | The French scientist Denis Papin, while professor of mathematics at Marburg, develops the first steam engine to use a piston | |
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| 1697 |
| | | The Russian tsar, Peter I, studies western European technology, working as a ship's carpenter in Dutch and English shipyards | |
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| 1698 |
| | | Thomas Savery creates the first practical steam engine, designed to pump water out of mines | |
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| 1698 |
| | | A maker of harpsichords in Florence, Bartolomeo Cristofori, develops the piano ('soft') and forte ('loud') feature which leads to the piano | |
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| 1709 |
| | | Abraham Darby at Coalbrookdale discovers the use of coke in the smelting of pig iron | |
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