Editing Timeline of historic inventions (section)

===17th century===
[[File:Relation Aller Fuernemmen und gedenckwuerdigen Historien (1609).jpg|thumb|upright|A 1609 title page of the ''[[Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien|Relation]]'', the world's first newspaper (first published in 1605)<ref name="World Association of Newspapers"/><ref name="Weber 2006, 396f."/>]]
* '''1605:''' [[Newspaper]] (''[[Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien|Relation]]''): [[Johann Carolus]] in [[Strassburg]] (see also [[List of the oldest newspapers]])<ref name="World Association of Newspapers">World Association of Newspapers: [http://www.wan-press.org/article6476.html "Newspapers: 400 Years Young!"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310235015/http://www.wan-press.org/article6476.html |date=10 March 2010}}</ref><ref name="Weber 2006, 396f.">Weber, Johannes (2006): "Strassburg, 1605: The Origins of the Newspaper in Europe", ''German History'', Vol. 24, No. 3, pp.&nbsp;387–412 (396f.)</ref>
* '''1608:''' [[Telescope]]: Patent applied for by [[Hans Lippershey]]. Actual inventor unknown since it seemed to already be a common item being offered by the spectacle makers in the Netherlands with [[Jacob Metius]] also applying for patent and the son of [[Zacharias Janssen]] making a claim 47 years later that his father invented it.
* '''1620:''' [[Optical microscope#Compound microscope|Compound microscopes]], which combine an [[Objective (optics)|objective lens]] with an [[eyepiece]] to view a [[real image]], first appear in Europe. Apparently derived from the telescope, actual inventor unknown, variously attributed to [[Zacharias Janssen]] (his son claiming it was invented in 1590), [[Cornelis Drebbel]], and [[Galileo Galilei]].<ref>David Macaulay, The Way Things Work Now, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – 2016, page 383</ref>
* '''1630:''' [[Slide rule]]: invented by [[William Oughtred]]<ref>Michelle Selinger, ''Teaching Mathematics'' (1994), p. 142.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/delamain.html |title=The Galileo Project |publisher=Galileo.rice.edu |access-date=31 October 2012}}</ref>
* '''1642:''' [[Mechanical calculator]]. The [[Pascaline]] is built by [[Blaise Pascal]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Brief History of the Calculator I Oxford Open Learning |url=https://www.ool.co.uk/blog/brief-history-calculator/ |access-date=2023-04-12 |website=www.ool.co.uk}}</ref>
* '''1643:''' [[Barometer]]: invented by [[Evangelista Torricelli]], or possibly up to three years earlier by [[Gasparo Berti]].<ref name="http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/history/barometerhistory1.htm">{{cite web|url=http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/history/barometerhistory1.htm |title=The Invention of the Barometer |publisher=Islandnet.com |access-date=4 February 2010}}</ref>
* '''1650:''' [[Vacuum pump]]: Invented by [[Otto von Guericke]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=da C. Andrade |first=E. N. |date=1959-03-01 |title=The history of the vacuum pump |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0042-207X%2859%2990555-X |journal=Vacuum |language=en |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=41–47 |doi=10.1016/0042-207X(59)90555-X |bibcode=1959Vacuu...9...41D |issn=0042-207X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* '''1656:''' [[Pendulum clock]]: Invented by [[Christiaan Huygens]]. It was first conceptualized in 1637 by [[Galileo Galilei]] but he was unable to create a working model.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The invention of the pendulum clock {{!}} THE SEIKO MUSEUM GINZA |url=https://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/ |access-date=2023-04-12 |website=THE SEIKO MUSEUM |language=en}}</ref>
* '''1663:''' [[Electrostatic generator|Friction machine]]: Invented by [[Otto von Guericke]].
* '''1668:''' First functional [[reflecting telescope]] constructed by [[Isaac Newton]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hall |first=A. Rupert (Alfred Rupert) |url=http://archive.org/details/isaacnewtonadven0000hall |title=Isaac Newton, adventurer in thought |date=1996 |publisher=Cambridge; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-521-56669-8}}</ref>
* '''1679:''' [[Pressure-cooker]]: Invented by [[Denis Papin]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hindle |first1=Brooke |last2=Lubar |first2=Steven |date=1988 |title=Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25143112 |journal=Labour / Le Travail |volume=22 |pages=378 |doi=10.2307/25143112 |jstor=25143112 |issn=0700-3862|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* '''1680:''' [[Christiaan Huygens]] provides the first known description of a [[Gunpowder engine|piston engine]].<ref>Thurston, pp 25</ref>
* '''1698:''' [[Thomas Savery]] develops a [[Thomas Savery#Steam-powered pump|steam-powered water pump]]: for draining mines<ref>{{Citation |title=Savery and his Fire Engine |date=2011-02-17 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511708169.003 |work=A Short History of the Steam Engine |pages=18–28 |access-date=2023-04-11 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/cbo9780511708169.003 |isbn=9781108012287 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>