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1023	First paper money printed in China.
1045	Movable type printing by Bi Sheng in China
Circa 1050	Crossbow invented in France.
1182	Magnetic compass invented.
Circa 1200	Clothing buttons invented.
1202	The Hindu-Arabic numbering system introduced to the west by Italian mathematician, Fibonacci.
1249	Rodger Bacon invented his gunpowder formula.
Circa 1250	Gun invented in China.
Circa 1268 - 1289	Invention of eyeglasses.
Circa 1280	Mechanical clocks invented.
Circa 1285 - 1290	Windmills invented.
1295	Modern glassmaking begins in Italy.
1328	First sawmill.
1326	First mention of a handgun.
1366	Scales for weighing invented.

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