Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Dutch-speaking people, in spite of their relatively small number, have a significant history of exploration, invention, innovation and discovery. The Netherlands and its people have made important contributions to civilization in the arts and humanities, architecture, science and technology, medicine, cartography, governance, economics and agriculture. Revolutionary Dutch inventions include advanced optical devices, timepieces, the first navigable submarine, the thermostat and mercury thermometer and Leyden jar.In the Age of Discovery, the Dutch built ships and traveled to every corner of the world, leaving their language embedded in the names of places they visited. At one time, every inhabited continent in the world had a Dutch foothold or at least some connection to the Netherlands. Australia, for instance, while never a Dutch possession, had Dutch seamen first map the coastline. Australia was originally known as New Holland. Dutch exploratory voyages revealed vast new territories to Europeans. Dutch explorers and cartographers were pioneers in first systematic charting/mapping of the largely unknown southern-hemispheric heavens in the late 16th century.The following list is composed of objects, processes or techniques that were invented by or discovered by people from the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking people from the former Southern Netherlands. Until the fall of Antwerp, the Dutch and Flemish were generally seen as one people.. }
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- List_of_Dutch_inventions_and_discoveries abstract "Dutch-speaking people, in spite of their relatively small number, have a significant history of exploration, invention, innovation and discovery. The Netherlands and its people have made important contributions to civilization in the arts and humanities, architecture, science and technology, medicine, cartography, governance, economics and agriculture. Revolutionary Dutch inventions include advanced optical devices, timepieces, the first navigable submarine, the thermostat and mercury thermometer and Leyden jar.In the Age of Discovery, the Dutch built ships and traveled to every corner of the world, leaving their language embedded in the names of places they visited. At one time, every inhabited continent in the world had a Dutch foothold or at least some connection to the Netherlands. Australia, for instance, while never a Dutch possession, had Dutch seamen first map the coastline. Australia was originally known as New Holland. Dutch exploratory voyages revealed vast new territories to Europeans. Dutch explorers and cartographers were pioneers in first systematic charting/mapping of the largely unknown southern-hemispheric heavens in the late 16th century.The following list is composed of objects, processes or techniques that were invented by or discovered by people from the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking people from the former Southern Netherlands. Until the fall of Antwerp, the Dutch and Flemish were generally seen as one people.".