Mechanical Galleon (nef clock)
c. 1585 · Resource
A gilt-brass clockwork ship automaton made by Hans Schlottheim in Augsburg, designed to trundle across a banquet table playing music while striking the hour. It embodies late-Renaissance German engineering.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1585
- English Reformation ends (1559)
- British East India Company chartered (1600)
- Thirty Years' War begins (1618)
- Death of Henry VIII (1547)
- Council of Trent (1545)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Don Quixote (1605)
- Taj Mahal built (1632)