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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






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3. Cloth woven from flax fiber






4. Noria in Roman Empire






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






6. Glue in Italy






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






8. 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.






9. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






10. 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






11. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






12. Friction Match - John Walker






13. Fire and then cooking






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






15. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






16. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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






20. Shelter construction






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






22. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






23. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire






24. 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






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






26. Flute in Germany






27. Cloth woven from flax fiber






28. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






29. Friction Match - John Walker






30. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.






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






32. 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.






33. 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






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






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






36. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






37. 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






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






39. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire






40. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






41. 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






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






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






44. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






45. Flute in Germany






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






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






48. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






49. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






50. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire