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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






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






3. 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






4. 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






5. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






6. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






7. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






8. 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






9. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






11. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard






12. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






13. 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.






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






15. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






16. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






17. 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






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






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






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






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






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






23. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






24. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






25. 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.






26. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






27. Bow






28. 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






29. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






30. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






32. Shelter construction






33. Pigments in Zambia






34. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






37. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






38. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






40. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






41. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






42. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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