Bellifortis (lit. 'Strong in War', 'War Fortifications') is the first fully illustrated manual of military technology, written by Konrad Kyeser and dating...

as "chastity belts" in the West is in Konrad Kyeser von Eichstätt's Bellifortis (1405), which describes the military technology of the era. The book...

Kyeser's "Bellifortis": The First Technological Treatise of the Fifteenth Century, Technology and Culture (1969). Brian R. Price, Bellifortis: Conrad Kyeser...

scholars claimed to have found a Letter text in Albanian inserted into the Bellifortis text, a book written in Latin dating to 1402–1405. "A star has fallen...

spiked flail with both hands to strike an adversary. Illustration from Bellifortis showing a mounted knight with a short flail, circa 1450. Hussite troops...

Organ gun in the Bellifortis treatise (written ca. 1405, illustration from Clm 30150, ca. 1430)...

engineer Konrad Kyeser (1366–after 1405). Devices depicted in Kyeser's Bellifortis include cranked windlasses for spanning siege crossbows, cranked chain...

Konrad Kyeser equipped the Archimedes screw with a crank mechanism in his Bellifortis (1405). This mechanism quickly replaced the ancient practice of working...

surviving firearm from Germany. Hand cannon being fired from a stand, Bellifortis manuscript, by Konrad Kyeser, 1405 A 10-shot hand cannon (handgonne)...

astrological treatise and a version of Konrad Kyeser's famous war book Bellifortis. Most significant among the noble clients that Talhoffer served in this...

History and Philology. 21 (2): 383–432. p. 395. Elsie, Robert (1986). "The Bellifortis Text and Early Albanian" (PDF). Zeitschrift für Balkanologie. 22 (2):...

hand accounts. Konrad Kyeser described rockets in his military treatise Bellifortis around 1405. Giovanni Fontana, a Paduan engineer in 1420, created rocket-propelled...

reference to chastity belts in Florence in the 15th century military manual Bellifortis), with a band around the waist or hips and a "shield" that runs between...

German military engineer Konrad Kyeser. Devices depicted in Kyeser's Bellifortis include cranked windlasses (instead of spoke-wheels) for spanning siege...

Cranked Archimedes' screw The German engineer Konrad Kyeser equips in his Bellifortis (1405) the Archimedes' screw with a crank mechanism which soon replaces...

European tiller gun lighted by a hot iron rod being fired from a stand, manuscript by Konrad Kyeser: Bellifortis. c. 1402–1404...

List of military inventions List of emerging military technologies Bellifortis, late medieval treatise on military technology. Materiel Douglas Peifer...

the 16th and 17th centuries. Konrad Kyeser described dragon kites in Bellifortis about 1400 AD. Although kites were initially regarded as mere curiosities...

the client is unknown) to technical illustrations in the tradition of Bellifortis (home, craft and military equipment, mining technology as well as military...

Barbara of Cilli as Venus, "Liber de septem signis", in Konrad Kyeser's Bellifortis (around first half of the fifteenth century) Barbara at the Council of...

mixture got under the armour and stuck to the skin. Konrad Kyeser's Bellifortis of 1405 describes a poisonous mixture of sulfur, tar and horses' hooves...

rack-and-pinion device for cocking a crossbow (c. 1493) Organ gun in the Bellifortis (c. 1405) Matheus 1996, p. 346 Alfred Crosby described some of this technological...

even denoted a mercenary in some regions. A bretèche is pictured in Bellifortis, Livro das Fortalezas, and in several other medieval military texts....

grenade. Konrad Kyeser described rockets in his famous military treatise Bellifortis around 1405. Kyeser describes three types of rockets, swimming, free...

being consumed in Ireland, where it is distilled by Catholic monks. Bellifortis, a book on military technology, is published by Konrad Kyeser. Christine...

century: Konrad Kyeser, illustrated his manual of military technology Bellifortis with a diving suit fitted with a hose to the surface. This diving suit...

being consumed in Ireland, where it is distilled by Catholic monks. Bellifortis, a book on military technology, is published by Konrad Kyeser. Christine...

closest to the Great War with the Teutonic Order was Conrad Kyeser's Bellifortis, a work completed around 1405, richly illustrated, where both in the...

assumed to be the remains of the 12th century Crusader castle named Bellifortis. It possibly belonged to the Hospitalliers in 1167. The PEF's Survey...