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
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)