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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
1733
2nd c. BC
35 ka
1st c. BC
2. A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or customized computer system that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device (a television - monitor - etc.) to display a video game. The term 'video game con
28 ka
1878
1804
1977
3. Bow
c. 480 BC
9th c.
1990
60 ka
4. Friction Match - John Walker
1826
563
1282
c. 515 BC
5. Numerical zero in Ancient India - The concept of zero as a number - and not merely a symbol for separation is attributed toIndia. In India - practical calculations were carried out using zero - which was treated like any other number by the 9th centu
5th/6th c.
9th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
Ca. 300
6. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1826
1st
5th/6th c.
7. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
160
1420s
1801
8. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1494
1995
1764
9. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1958-59
1.8 million years ago
Early 3rd c. BC
1826
10. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1286
1915
1709
2nd
11. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1480s
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
3rd c. BC
1st c. BC
12. Fire and then cooking
36 ka
1.8 million years ago
1764
2nd c. BC
13. A CD-ROM (an acronym of 'Compact Disc Read-only memory') is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to - but not writable by - a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985
Early 3rd c. BC
1985
1804
1.8 million years ago
14. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
36 ka
1877
1439
c. 515 BC
15. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
16 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
1990
16. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
3rd c. BC
c. 480 BC
2nd
9th c.
17. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
c. 515 BC
1st c.
1742
3rd c. BC
18. Twisted rope
1826
5th c. BC
c. 515 BC
28 ka
19. Shelter construction
500 thousand years ago (ka)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
Late 3rd
9th c.
20. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1420s
2nd c.
c. 240 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
21. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1802
35 ka
December 20 - 1951
1958-59
22. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
1709
c. 480 BC
2nd c. BC
1878
23. Glue in Italy
2nd c. BC
200 ka
c. 480 BC
1742
24. Numerical zero in Ancient India - The concept of zero as a number - and not merely a symbol for separation is attributed toIndia. In India - practical calculations were carried out using zero - which was treated like any other number by the 9th centu
9th c.
1802
2nd
1822
25. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
160
1764
1826
Early 3rd c. BC
26. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1764
9th c.
7th c.
5th c. BC
27. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
60 ka
Before 421 BC
Before 421 BC
14th c.
28. Spears in Germany
35 ka
400 ka
Before 421 BC
563
29. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
c. 480 BC
1733
1802
16 ka
30. Cast iron in Ancient China - Confirmed by archaeological evidence - the earliest cast iron was developed in China by the early 5th century BC during the Zhou Dynasty (1122
5th c. BC
1494
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c.
31. Burial
1st c.
1915
160
35 ka
32. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1742
1119
Before 421 BC
After 205 BC
33. The electric light bulb was first patented in England by 1878 by Joseph Swan after having experimented since about 1850. Thomas Edison in the U.S. was working on improving the bulb patented by Swan and was granted a U.S. patent in 1879.
1878
1420s
c. 480 BC
1801
34. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1420s
1733
Before 421 BC
1560
35. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
c. 240 BC
1439
1709
7th c.
36. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
1742
1915
1801
37. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
5th c. BC
1088
38. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
c. 240 BC
5th c. BC
1494
3rd c. BC
39. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1990
1995
1st c. BC
40. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1995
1st c.
1804
7th c.
41. S
1717
1709
1877
1826
42. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
c. 240 BC
1878
1958-59
4th
43. Gunpowder in Ancient China - Gunpowder was - according to prevailing academic consensus - discovered in the 9th century by Chinese alchemists searching for an elixir of immortality. Evidence of gunpowder's first use in China comes from the Five Dynas
1804
1888
563
9th c.
44. Pigments in Zambia
400 ka
60 ka
2nd c. BC
36 ka
45. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1420s
1480s
1282
5th c. BC
46. Movable type in Ancient China - The first record of a movable type system is in the Dream Pool Essays written in 1088 - which attributed the invention of the movable type to Bi Sheng. In the 15th century - Johannes Gutenberg independently invented th
1088
2nd c. BC
16 ka
1733
47. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1st
1877
Early 3rd c. BC
1560
48. Friction Match - John Walker
1826
1480s
1800-01
14th c.
49. World Wide Web by a British national in Geneva - Switzerland - The World Wide Web was first proposed on March 1989 by English engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee - now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium. The project was pub
1990
1494
1977
1560
50. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
c. 240 BC
1742
Before 421 BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)