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What is the earliest mention of use of spyglass by seafarers? There several mentions of the early spyglass use are presented, 1) 19 November 1614 during the battle between Portuguese and French it is said that one of the Portuguse officers was looking through the porthole with a "hum oculo de longa vista" ("a glass for seeing at the distance")
contemporary history - Why was Apple not able to compete with Microsoft . . . He acquired a CP M-knock off OS, 86-DOS, for an absurdly low sum, and then used the product he had essentially obtained for free to undercut Digital Research's CP M Windows Internet Explorer was originally licensed to Microsoft by Spyglass for a royalty on every copy sold Gates bundled it for free with every copy of Windows 95, which means he
How was the dynamics of a naval battle in the 17th century? The C17 was a period of evolution in naval tactics At the start naval battles were generally conducted in a pell-mell fashion with small groups of ships supporting each other in an attempting to capture by boarding the enemy
What types of work did enslaved people do in the Americas? In addition to MCW's excellent answer, a lot of the non-agricultural slaves (who as MCW stated represented maybe 10% of the slave population, with the rest doing agricultural work) worked in metallurgy