Before revision: Medieval Europe Diffusion theory has been advanced as an explanation for the "European miracle", the adoption of technological innovation in medieval Europe which by the 19th century culminated in European technological achievement surpassing the Islamic world and China.<ref>Carlo M. Cipolla, Before the Industrial revolution: European Society and Economy 1000–1700, W.W. Norton and Co., New York (1980) </ref> Technological imports to medieval Europe include gunpowder, clock mechanisms, shipbuilding, paper and the windmill , however, in each of these cases Europeans not only adopted the technologies , but improved the manufacturing scale, inherent technology, and applications to a point clearly surpassing the evolution of the original invention in its country of origin.
After revision: Medieval Europe Diffusion theory has been advanced as an explanation for the "European miracle"; the adoption of technological innovation in medieval Europe which by the 19th century culminated in European technological achievement surpassing the Islamic world and China.<ref>Carlo M. Cipolla, Before the Industrial revolution: European Society and Economy 1000–1700, W.W. Norton and Co., New York (1980) </ref> Technological imports to medieval Europe include gunpowder, clock mechanisms, shipbuilding, paper and the windmill , however, in each of these cases Europeans not only adopted the technologies , but improved the manufacturing scale, inherent technology, and applications to a point clearly surpassing the evolution of the original invention in its country of origin.