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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Twisted rope
1st c.
2nd c. BC
28 ka
7th c.
2. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1st c. BC
2nd c.
1282
Early 3rd c. BC
3. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
5th c. BC
1804
1282
1605
4. 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
December 20 - 1951
5th c. BC
1985
2nd c. BC
5. Spears in Germany
500 thousand years ago (ka)
400 ka
14th c.
c. 240 BC
6. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
1480s
5th c. BC
14th c.
1802
7. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
28 ka
5th/6th c.
200 ka
Late 3rd
8. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1119
1877
1712
16 ka
9. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
672
1958-59
1878
5th c. BC
10. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
400 ka
1800-01
1439
1st c. BC
11. Fire and then cooking
1286
563
1.8 million years ago
2nd c. BC
12. 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
2nd
1802
1119
1494
13. S
1717
4th
1878
36 ka
14. Flute in Germany
1878
35 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
15. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1733
2nd c. BC
16 ka
1802
16. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd c. BC
16 ka
1985
17. S
60 ka
14th c.
563
1717
18. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
4th
5th/6th c.
Ca. 300
19. Crane in Ancient Greece
1480s
16 ka
c. 515 BC
400 ka
20. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
1822
Late 3rd
400 ka
60 ka
21. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
563
1800-01
c. 240 BC
2nd
22. 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
1st
1990
2nd c. BC
1119
23. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1826
1804
200 ka
Before 421 BC
24. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1286
1733
35 ka
1878
25. 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
1877
1822
1.8 million years ago
28 ka
26. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1977
2nd c. BC
c. 515 BC
563
27. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1985
2nd c. BC
1801
2nd c. BC
28. 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
1088
1888
9th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
29. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
4th
c. 240 BC
1804
9th c.
30. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1282
1804
Early 3rd c. BC
1605
31. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1877
672
4th
1804
32. 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
5th c. BC
December 20 - 1951
1.8 million years ago
1712
33. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
1st c. BC
1822
1470s
34. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
Late 3rd c.
December 20 - 1951
1712
1878
35. Burial
2nd c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1801
160
36. 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
1990
1439
1480s
1977
37. Twisted rope
Late 3rd c.
28 ka
1282
1915
38. Flute in Germany
35 ka
1st c. BC
1958-59
1804
39. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
2nd c. BC
1822
c. 240 BC
1709
40. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
400 ka
1717
1733
1560
41. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1439
2nd c.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1480s
42. 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.
5th c. BC
c. 240 BC
4th
500 thousand years ago (ka)
43. 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
1801
Early 3rd c. BC
1088
16 ka
44. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
1888
160
1st c.
45. Cloth woven from flax fiber
December 20 - 1951
5th c. BC
1420s
36 ka
46. Friction Match - John Walker
1826
1470s
4th
2nd c. BC
47. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
Late 3rd c.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd c. BC
c. 480 BC
48. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1802
2nd c. BC
1286
1439
49. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1742
672
1801
1712
50. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
2nd c.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
563
1801