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==Technology== * January 11 β April 21 β [[Tsar]] [[Peter the Great]] of [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]] (incognito as 'Peter Mikhailov') visits [[England]] as part of his [[Grand Embassy of Peter I|Grand Embassy]], making a particular study of shipbuilding.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/28.htm|title=January 28th|work=Chambers' Book of Days|accessdate=2007-12-28| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20071217212219/http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/28.htm| archivedate= 17 December 2007 <!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref> * July 25 β [[English people|English]] engineer [[Thomas Savery]] obtains a [[patent]] for "A new invention for raising of water... by the impellent force of fire", a [[Pumps#Steam pumps|steam pump]].<ref>{{cite web|first=E. I.|last=Carlyle|title=Savery, Thomas (1650?β1715)|work=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24733|accessdate=2011-11-05|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/24733}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref> * November 14 β First [[Eddystone Lighthouse]] illuminated,<ref>{{cite book|first=Fred|last=Majdalany|title=The Red Rocks of Eddystone|location=London|publisher=Longmans|year=1959|page=49}}</ref> the first rock [[lighthouse]] in [[Europe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/pdfs/info-sheets/Advances_in_AtoN.pdf|title=Advances in Aids to Navigation Technology|accessdate=2011-07-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110602005724/http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/pdfs/info-sheets/Advances_in_AtoN.pdf|archive-date=2011-06-02|url-status=dead}}</ref> * The piano is invented by Italian [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]], originally named the "piano et forte" (meaning "soft and loud"). * A [[metronome]] is developed as a machine to measure musical [[tempo]].
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