By the 16th century, a cappella polyphony had further developed, but gradually, the cantata began to take the place of a cappella forms.

Technically, five bit codes began in the 16th century, when Francis Bacon developed the cipher now called Bacon's cipher.

The practice developed into a wide-scale business which flourished until the late 16th century.

The custom of the Christmas tree developed in early modern Germany with predecessors that can be traced to the 16th and possibly the 15th century.

In this period a number of technological innovations spread, most notably iron working and the Phoenician alphabet, developed by the Phoenicians or the Canaanites around the 16th century BC.

This harp originated in Italy in the 16th century as a low headed instrument, and towards the end of 17th century it arrived in Wales where it developed a high head and larger size.

Founded in the 16th century, Keflavík developed on account of its fishing and fish processing industry, founded by Scottish entrepreneurs and engineers.

A 16th century book by Georg Agricola called De re metallica describes the highly developed and complex processes of mining metal ores, metal extraction and metallurgy of the time.

In the latter part of the 16th century, Giovanni Gabrieli and other composers developed a new style, the polychoral motet, in which two or more choirs of singers ( or instruments ) alternated.

Modern materialist philosophy developed in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, starting in the generations after Machiavelli.

Between the early 16th and the late 17th centuries, however, an original tradition of stone tented roof architecture had been developed in Russia.

In the late 16th century, as the Renaissance era closed, an extremely manneristic style developed.

The Roman Inquisition was a system of tribunals developed by the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church during the second half of the 16th century, responsible for prosecuting individuals accused of a wide array of crimes relating to religious doctrine or alternate religious beliefs.

The old Slovene orthography, also known as Bohorič's Alphabet, which was developed by the Protestants in the 16th century and remained in use until mid-19th century, testified to the unbroken tradition of Slovene culture as established in the years of the Protestant Reformation.

Under the influence of scientists and philosophers like Francis Bacon, a sophisticated empirical tradition was developed by the 16th century.

These devices were developed by several European scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, notably Galileo Galilei.

By the 16th century, a tradition had developed based on observational incidents, true or false, that the black objects found widely scattered in large quantities over Europe had fallen from the sky during thunderstorms and were therefore to be considered generated by lightning.

It is believed likely that some form of inoculation was developed in India or China before the 16th century.

In 16th century Italy, both " violas ",— the early viols and violins — developed somewhat simultaneously.

They developed from the 10th to the 16th century, reaching the height of their popularity in the 15th century before being rendered obsolete by the rise of professional theatre.

It was not until the 16th and 17th centuries that the school developed a department of medicine.

In the early 16th century Alghero received the status of King's City ( ciutat de l ' Alguer ) and developed economically.

By the Middle Ages it was a prominent part of European cuisine, although savoys were not developed until the 16th century.

During the 16th century, German gardeners developed the savoy cabbage.

The conventions of this representation, head tilted, lips slightly parted, large-eyed, curling hair cut in locks grazing the neck, were developed in the 3rd century BCE to depict Alexander the Great.

In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently " alphabetic " system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script is thought by some to have been developed in the Sinai peninsula during the 19th century BC, by Canaanite workers in the Egyptian turquoise mines.

Others suggest the alphabet was developed in central Egypt during the 15th century BC for or by Semitic workers, but only one of these early writings has been deciphered and their exact nature remains open to interpretation.

Similarly, around the 3rd century BC, the Brāhmī script developed ( from the Aramaic abjad, it has been hypothesized ).

The word Angst has existed since the 8th century, from the Proto-Indo-European root * anghu -, " restraint " from which Old High German angust developed.

Also in the 19th century, Wheatstone, Ohm, and Henry developed the analogy between electricity and acoustics.

This theory was developed by the British chemist and physicist John Dalton in the 18th century.

The Annales School () is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century.

Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people ; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as " one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first ".

Early in the twentieth century psychologist Carl Jung developed some concepts concerning astrology, which led to the development of psychological astrology.

The religious communal society known as the Shakers emigrated from England during the 18th century and developed their own folk dance style.

Agriculture in the Annapolis valley boomed in the late 19th century with the arrival of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway, later the Dominion Atlantic Railway, which developed large export markets for Annapolis Valley apples.

Late in the sixteenth century the " verse anthem ", in which passages for solo voices alternated with passages for full choir, developed.

The fact that the Aeginetan standard of weights and measures ( developed in the mid-7th century ) was one of the two standards in general use in the Greek world ( the other being the Euboic-Attic ) is sufficient evidence of the early commercial importance of the island.

With the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, truss systems of wrought iron were developed for larger bridges, but iron did not have the tensile strength to support large loads.

The Glagolitic alphabet was gradually superseded in later centuries by the Cyrillic script, developed around the Preslav Literary School, Bulgaria in the beginning of the 10th century.

The second was the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke Old Norman and ultimately developed an English variety of this called Anglo-Norman.

A new style, during World War I, known as trench warfare, developed nearly half a century later.

During the 18th century, systems of classification were developed that are comparable to diagnostic keys, where taxa are artificially grouped in pairs.

This potential has not been fully developed because of the ease and speed in building with other materials ; in the late-20th century brick was confined to low-or medium-rise structures or as a thin decorative cladding over concrete-and-steel buildings or for internal non-load-bearing walls.

The most common type of brick kiln in use there are Bull's Trench Kiln ( BTK ), based on a design developed by British engineer W. Bull in the late 19th century.

In the 18th century ballad operas developed as a form of English stage entertainment, partly in opposition to the Italian domination of the London operatic scene.

In the 20th century, the ideas of Laplace were further developed in two different directions, giving rise to objective and subjective currents in Bayesian practice.