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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire






2. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather






3. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently






4. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






5. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire






6. 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.






7. 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






8. 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






9. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






10. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






11. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






12. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece






13. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.






14. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily






15. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






16. Spears in Germany






17. Banknote in Tang Dynasty China - The banknote was first developed in China during the Tang and Song dynasties - starting in the 7th century. Its roots were in merchant receipts of deposit during the Tang Dynasty (618






18. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)






19. Pottery






20. Eyeglasses in Italy






21. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280






22. 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.






23. Bow






24. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.






25. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






26. Wind power in an open air stream is thus proportional to the third power of the wind speed; the available power increases eightfold when the wind speed doubles. Wind turbines for grid electricity therefore need to be especially efficient at greater w






27. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC






28. Friction Match - John Walker






29. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






30. Printing press in Mainz - Germany - The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440 - based on existing screw presses. The first confirmed record of a press appeared in a 1439 lawsuit against Gutenberg.






31. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






32. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






33. The tank was invented by Ernest Swinton - although the British Royal Commission on Awards recognised a South Australian named Lance de Mole who had submitted a proposal to the British War Office - for a 'chain-rail vehicle which could be easily stee






34. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)






35. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire






36. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic






37. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






38. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






39. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)






40. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






41. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






42. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






43. Crossbow in Ancient China and Ancient Greece - In Ancient China - the earliest evidence of bronze crossbow bolts dates as early as mid-5th century BC in Yutaishan - Hubei.In Ancient Greece - the terminus ante quem of the gastraphetes is 421 BC.






44. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






45. 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






46. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






47. Fire and then cooking






48. 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






49. 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






50. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283