He astonished the court with a demonstration of a perpetual motion machine, automatic and hydraulic organs and his optical Instruments. He was attached to the court of young Renaissance crown-prince Henry. Drebbel worked there at the masques, that were performed by and for the court. In that spectacle-making center he may have picked up knowledge in the art of lens grinding and later would construct a magic lantern and a camera obscura.Īround 1604 the Drebbel family moved to England, probably at the invitation of the new king, James I of England (VI of Scotland). In 1600, Drebbel was in Middelburg where he built a fountain at the Noorderpoort. In 1598 he obtained a patent for a water-supply system and a sort of perpetual clockwork. But he was in constant need of money because of the prodigal lifestyle of his wife. Drebbel worked initially as a painter, engraver and cartographer. They had at least six children, of whom four survived. In 1595 he married Sophia Jansdochter Goltzius, younger sister of Hendrick, and settled at Alkmaar. Drebbel became a skilled engraver on copperplate and also took an interest in alchemy. Teachers at the Academy were Hendrik Goltzius, engraver, painter, alchemist and humanist, Karel van Mander, painter, writer, humanist and Cornelis Corneliszoon of Haarlem. After some years at the Latin school in Alkmaar, around 1587, he attended the Academy in Haarlem, also located in North-Holland. He was the builder of the first operational submarine in 1620 and an innovator who contributed to the development of measurement and control systems, optics and chemistry.Ĭornelis Drebbel was born in Alkmaar, Holland in an Anabaptist family in 1572. Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel ( Dutch pronunciation: ) (1572 – 7 November 1633) was a Dutch engineer and inventor.
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