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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire






2. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






3. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






4. Friction Match - John Walker






5. Eyeglasses in Italy






6. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)






7. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






9. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






10. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert






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






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






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






14. The pattern-tracing lathe (actually more like a shaper) is completed by Thomas Blanchard for the U.S. Ordnance Dept. The lathe could copy symmetrical shapes and was used for making gun stocks - and later - ax handles. The lathe's patent was in force






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






16. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






17. Burial






18. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






20. 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






21. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






22. Pigments in Zambia






23. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






24. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






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






27. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert






28. DVD is an optical disc storage format - invented and developed by Philips - Sony - Toshiba - and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.






29. 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






30. 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






31. 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






32. Flute in Germany






33. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho






34. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283






35. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






36. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






38. Burial






39. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)






40. DVD is an optical disc storage format - invented and developed by Philips - Sony - Toshiba - and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.






41. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.






42. 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






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






44. 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.






45. Glue in Italy






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47. Flute in Germany






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






49. Pottery






50. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X







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