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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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






2. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






4. 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






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






6. Pigments in Zambia






7. Bow






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9. Pottery






10. 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.






11. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






13. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






14. 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






15. Pigments in Zambia






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






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






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






19. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






20. 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.






21. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






23. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






24. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






25. Pottery






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






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






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






29. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






30. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






32. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






34. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






35. 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






36. 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






37. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






38. Flute in Germany






39. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






41. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






42. 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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






49. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






50. 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