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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Late 3rd
2nd
9th c.
1915
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
1733
7th c.
1977
500 thousand years ago (ka)
3. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1995
1088
14th c.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
4. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
1st c.
4th
c. 240 BC
1.8 million years ago
5. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
After 205 BC
2nd c. BC
Late 3rd c.
1985
6. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
563
1119
2nd c. BC
1958-59
7. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
Late 3rd
1605
1712
1804
8. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1764
400 ka
200 ka
5th/6th c.
9. Noria in Roman Empire
Late 3rd
1286
c. 240 BC
Ca. 300
10. Fire and then cooking
1088
1717
1717
1.8 million years ago
11. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1764
1995
2nd c.
9th c.
12. Crane in Ancient Greece
16 ka
c. 515 BC
16 ka
1742
13. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
1494
5th c. BC
1480s
2nd c. BC
14. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1709
1801
408
1878
15. Glue in Italy
200 ka
c. 515 BC
c. 515 BC
1878
16. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1709
4th
400 ka
1480s
17. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1801
1800-01
1915
After 205 BC
18. Glue in Italy
200 ka
1605
1742
1801
19. 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.
1st c. BC
1717
1995
5th/6th c.
20. 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.
1119
400 ka
1878
1088
21. 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
Late 3rd c.
1888
200 ka
5th c. BC
22. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1712
1804
5th/6th c.
Before 421 BC
23. 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
7th c.
9th c.
16 ka
c. 480 BC
24. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1878
408
1800-01
1286
25. 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.
36 ka
408
36 ka
26. Friction Match - John Walker
1985
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd
1826
27. 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
3rd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
1282
28. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
2nd c. BC
672
1990
14th c.
29. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
28 ka
1286
1st c. BC
9th c.
30. 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
1888
400 ka
1560
1804
31. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1878
1480s
1804
1990
32. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
9th c.
1800-01
563
Early 3rd c. BC
33. Burial
After 205 BC
3rd c. BC
160
1878
34. Pigments in Zambia
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
5th c. BC
400 ka
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
35. Mariner's compass (wet compass) in Ancient China - The earliest recorded use of magnetized needle for navigational purposes at sea is found in Zhu Yu's book Pingzhou Table Talks of 1119 (written from 1111 to 1117). The typical Chinese navigational co
16 ka
16 ka
1119
400 ka
36. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
c. 480 BC
After 205 BC
1st c. BC
1822
37. Friction Match - John Walker
1st c. BC
1826
1605
3rd c. BC
38. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1733
1088
1st
9th c.
39. Pottery
Early 3rd c. BC
160
1480s
16 ka
40. 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.
200 ka
1605
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
5th c. BC
41. Flute in Germany
1420s
c. 240 BC
1733
35 ka
42. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1605
1742
1804
563
43. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
Ca. 300
4th
After 205 BC
44. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
200 ka
408
1470s
1st c. BC
45. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
Early 3rd c. BC
1560
1088
1804
46. Twisted rope
400 ka
1826
60 ka
28 ka
47. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
1878
5th c. BC
2nd
9th c.
48. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
400 ka
1480s
1st c. BC
5th c. BC
49. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1804
200 ka
36 ka
1800-01
50. 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
672
1990
Early 3rd c. BC
1985
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