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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
5th c. BC
December 20 - 1951
1st c.
408
2. 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
1826
1742
1802
3. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1605
5th/6th c.
14th c.
1802
4. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1804
400 ka
36 ka
1985
5. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
c. 240 BC
2nd c. BC
2nd c.
1878
6. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
2nd c. BC
c. 240 BC
60 ka
1878
7. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
Late 3rd c.
1st c. BC
1480s
200 ka
8. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1877
Early 3rd c. BC
160
9. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
Before 421 BC
1480s
1470s
1878
10. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1764
After 205 BC
11. Pottery
2nd c. BC
5th/6th c.
9th c.
16 ka
12. Fire and then cooking
1088
672
1877
1.8 million years ago
13. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
16 ka
c. 515 BC
9th c.
December 20 - 1951
14. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
1605
36 ka
1804
15. Shelter construction
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1.8 million years ago
16. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
1977
c. 480 BC
1995
1.8 million years ago
17. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
1878
1494
1st
Late 3rd c.
18. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
c. 480 BC
1712
1958-59
Ca. 300
19. Pottery
16 ka
1st c. BC
7th c.
1877
20. 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
1088
Early 3rd c. BC
1712
7th c.
21. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1712
1420s
Early 3rd c. BC
After 205 BC
22. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1733
1822
1804
23. 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
9th c.
60 ka
5th c. BC
1877
24. 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
December 20 - 1951
60 ka
1878
1119
25. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
2nd c. BC
1990
5th c. BC
1st c. BC
26. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
1560
Late 3rd
408
1822
27. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1822
1985
1420s
1st
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
c. 240 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1977
36 ka
29. 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
Before 421 BC
400 ka
9th c.
35 ka
30. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
5th c. BC
Before 421 BC
1560
1802
31. Cloth woven from flax fiber
c. 515 BC
36 ka
1878
400 ka
32. Flute in Germany
1801
5th c. BC
35 ka
1470s
33. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1605
1st c.
1st
408
34. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
16 ka
c. 240 BC
2nd c. BC
1958-59
35. Spears in Germany
1717
5th c. BC
1733
400 ka
36. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
35 ka
1764
5th c. BC
Before 421 BC
37. 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
1088
400 ka
1985
c. 515 BC
38. Eyeglasses in Italy
1878
1985
1286
7th c.
39. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1733
672
Before 421 BC
28 ka
40. 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
400 ka
672
Late 3rd c.
9th c.
41. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
400 ka
5th c. BC
160
1826
42. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1286
408
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1878
43. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
c. 515 BC
1717
5th c. BC
4th
44. 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
1286
1605
1888
1804
45. Noria in Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
Ca. 300
5th c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
46. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
1712
Early 3rd c. BC
7th c.
3rd c. BC
47. Pigments in Zambia
400 ka
200 ka
1877
1888
48. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1717
1877
1286
2nd c. BC
49. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
7th c.
1560
5th c. BC
1958-59
50. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1439
1801
400 ka
60 ka