Editing Timeline of historic inventions (section)

=== 16th century ===
* '''16th century:''' [[Chintz]] or [[Woodblock printing|printed]] clothing in [[Qutb Shahi dynasty|Golconda]], India<ref name="Allen G. Noble">{{cite book |last=Noble |first=Allen G. |title=India: Cultural Patterns And Processes |publisher=Routledge |year=2019 |isbn=9780429724633 |page=1 |jstor=44148394}}</ref>
* '''16th century:'''  [[Hookah]] by Irfan Shaikh, at the court of the Mughal emperor [[Akbar]] I (1542{{endash}}1605).
<ref name="iranica">{{cite web |author=Razpush, Shahnaz |date=15 December 2000 |title=ḠALYĀN |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/galyan- |access-date=19 December 2012 |publisher=[[Encyclopedia Iranica]] |pages=261–265 |volume=X}}</ref><ref name="Sivaramakrishnan4-5">{{cite book |last=Sivaramakrishnan |first=V. M. |title=Tobacco and Areca Nut |publisher=Orient Blackswan |year=2001 |isbn=81-250-2013-6 |location=[[Hyderabad (India)|Hyderabad]] |pages=4–5}}</ref>
* '''1560:''' [[Dry dock#Floating|Floating dry dock]] in [[Venice]], [[Venetian Republic]]<ref>[[George Sarton|Sarton, George]] (1946): "Floating Docks in the Sixteenth Century", ''[[Isis (journal)|Isis]]'', Vol. 36, No. 3/4, pp.&nbsp;153–154 (153f.)</ref>
* '''1569:''' [[Mercator Projection]] map created by [[Gerardus Mercator]]
* '''1589:''' [[Stocking frame]]: Invented by [[William Lee (inventor)|William Lee]].<ref>{{cite web|title=William Lee English inventor|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Lee|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=13 June 2017|language=en}}</ref>
* '''1594:''' [[Backstaff]]: Invented by Captain [[John Davis (English explorer)|John Davis]].
* '''By at least 1597:''' [[Revolver]]: Invented by Hans Stopler.