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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
9th c.
2nd
c. 480 BC
Before 421 BC
2. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
1420s
2nd c. BC
Late 3rd c.
3. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1764
1.8 million years ago
4. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
200 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
16 ka
5. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
1985
Late 3rd
Ca. 300
1804
6. 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
2nd c.
28 ka
14th c.
1985
7. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
December 20 - 1951
7th c.
1764
1st
8. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
Ca. 300
1420s
2nd c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
9. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1877
After 205 BC
60 ka
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
10. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
9th c.
1800-01
672
1282
11. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
Early 3rd c. BC
1826
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
December 20 - 1951
12. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
1733
3rd c. BC
1822
c. 240 BC
13. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
1958-59
Early 3rd c. BC
1712
14. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1888
1st c. BC
1877
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
15. Friction Match - John Walker
1764
1826
160
2nd
16. 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
1st c.
672
1560
1802
17. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
5th/6th c.
2nd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
18. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1985
1560
Ca. 300
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
19. Twisted rope
35 ka
28 ka
1985
1494
20. Fire and then cooking
408
December 20 - 1951
1.8 million years ago
1888
21. Noria in Roman Empire
35 ka
Ca. 300
c. 515 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
22. 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
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1822
2nd c. BC
1088
23. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1804
1878
1764
1717
24. 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
1439
1985
1.8 million years ago
1742
25. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1764
1802
1420s
1709
26. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1977
1733
1878
1470s
27. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1802
1804
7th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
28. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
35 ka
1st c. BC
Before 421 BC
1480s
29. Cloth woven from flax fiber
14th c.
2nd c. BC
36 ka
2nd
30. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
2nd
400 ka
1480s
1822
31. Bow
Ca. 300
1709
60 ka
160
32. S
1804
200 ka
1742
1717
33. Spears in Germany
400 ka
5th c. BC
1.8 million years ago
1877
34. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1560
2nd c. BC
After 205 BC
1800-01
35. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1st c. BC
1470s
1712
1439
36. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1717
2nd c. BC
1764
1st c. BC
37. 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
1990
160
2nd c. BC
1.8 million years ago
38. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1709
1st c. BC
Late 3rd c.
c. 515 BC
39. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
Late 3rd
563
1470s
Early 3rd c. BC
40. 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
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1420s
1088
41. 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
408
1977
1st c. BC
9th c.
42. Spears in Germany
December 20 - 1951
500 thousand years ago (ka)
400 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
43. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
400 ka
c. 515 BC
1802
1605
44. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
3rd c. BC
1470s
1742
1st c. BC
45. 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
1420s
December 20 - 1951
1822
1990
46. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
4th
2nd c.
1733
35 ka
47. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
5th c. BC
1709
1742
1282
48. Pottery
160
1977
1st c.
16 ka
49. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1st c. BC
16 ka
3rd c. BC
Before 421 BC
50. Fire and then cooking
2nd c.
1.8 million years ago
4th
9th c.