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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






2. Friction Match - John Walker






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






4. Pottery






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






6. Eyeglasses in Italy






7. Eyeglasses in Italy






8. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






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






11. Friction Match - John Walker






12. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






13. 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.






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






15. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






16. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






17. Flute in Germany






18. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






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






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






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






23. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






24. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






25. 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






26. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






27. Crane in Ancient Greece






28. 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






29. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






31. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






32. 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






33. Pigments in Zambia






34. 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






35. 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






36. Burial






37. 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






38. Glue in Italy






39. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)






40. 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.






41. 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






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. 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






44. 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






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






46. Pigments in Zambia






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






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






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






50. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick