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    Konrad Kyeser (26 August 1366 – after 1405) was a German military engineer and the author of Bellifortis (c. 1405), a book on military technology that...
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    Musical Tales in 2011. In 2018, Blessed voiced German military engineer Konrad Kyeser in the open-world medieval RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance. He voiced...
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    the first fully illustrated manual of military technology, written by Konrad Kyeser and dating from the start of the 15th century. It summarises material...
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    of what could be interpreted as "chastity belts" in the West is in Konrad Kyeser von Eichstätt's Bellifortis (1405), which describes the military technology...
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    require that the casing be rigidly attached to the screw. German engineer Konrad Kyeser equipped the Archimedes screw with a crank mechanism in his Bellifortis...
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    Jeningen (1642–1704), catholic priest Anna Knauer (born 1995), cyclist Konrad Kyeser (1366–after 1405), nobleman and war technician of medieval Europe Jörg...
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    Early air mattress by the German engineer Konrad Kyeser (c. 1405)...
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  • Stephanie and Sir Radzig as hostages. The Lords lay siege to Talmberg, and Konrad Kyeser is recruited to help build a trebuchet, which the Lords use to breach...
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    Rocket-propelled grenade. Konrad Kyeser described rockets in his famous military treatise Bellifortis around 1405. Kyeser describes three types of rockets...
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    Possibly the oldest surviving Albanian text, highlighted in red, from the Bellifortis manuscript, written by Konrad Kyeser around 1402–1405....
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