N'ihe dị ka narị afọ nke 16 na mmalite mmalite nke oge a nke Western Europe gụnyere onye na-ese map Gerardus Mercator, onye na-ahụ maka ihe ndị dị na mbara igwe Andreas Vesalius, onye na-ahụ maka ahịhịa Rembert Dodoens na onye na-agụ mgbakọ na mwepụ Simon Stevin n'etiti ndị ọkà mmụta sayensị kachasị emetụta.Chemist Ernest Solvay na engineer Zenobe Gramme (École industrielle de Liège) nyere aha ha na usoro Solvay na Gramme dynamo, n'otu n'otu, na 1860s. Bakelite mepụtara na 1907<unk>1909 site n'aka Leo Baekeland. Ernest Solvay bụkwa nnukwu onye ọrụ ebere ma nye aha ya na Institute of Sociology, Brussels School of Economics na Solvay International Institutes for Physics and Chemistry nke bụ ugbu a akụkụ nke Université de Bruxelles.
Leo Baekeland