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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






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






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






5. Pottery






6. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






7. 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






8. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






9. 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






10. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






11. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






12. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






13. Eyeglasses in Italy






14. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






15. Glue in Italy






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






18. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






19. Pigments in Zambia






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






21. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






23. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






24. 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.






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






26. Glue in Italy






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






28. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






29. 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






30. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






31. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






32. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






33. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






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36. 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






37. 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






38. Crane in Ancient Greece






39. 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






40. Pigments in Zambia






41. Greek fire in Constantinople - Byzantine Empire- Greek fire - an incendiary weapon likely based on petroleum or naphtha - was invented by Kallinikos - a Greek refugee to Constantinople - as described by Theophanes. However - the historicity and exact






42. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






43. Noria in Roman Empire






44. Friction Match - John Walker






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






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






47. 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.






48. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






49. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






50. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick







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