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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd
1800-01
1712
2. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
14th c.
672
1800-01
1712
3. 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
5th c. BC
5th/6th c.
1822
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
4. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1709
9th c.
1420s
c. 515 BC
5. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
1804
c. 480 BC
160
563
6. 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.
1605
1878
1088
1977
7. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
Before 421 BC
1995
December 20 - 1951
1800-01
8. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1st c. BC
1494
1470s
408
9. 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
After 205 BC
9th c.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
7th c.
10. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1.8 million years ago
2nd c. BC
1804
9th c.
11. The tank was invented by Ernest Swinton - although the British Royal Commission on Awards recognised a South Australian named Lance de Mole who had submitted a proposal to the British War Office - for a 'chain-rail vehicle which could be easily stee
1915
5th/6th c.
9th c.
2nd
12. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
December 20 - 1951
9th c.
1st c. BC
1804
13. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1088
Early 3rd c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1822
14. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1802
1420s
36 ka
5th/6th c.
15. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
200 ka
1804
1st c. BC
5th/6th c.
16. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
5th c. BC
1st
1764
160
17. Fire and then cooking
1470s
1977
1088
1.8 million years ago
18. Bow
1995
1804
1282
60 ka
19. 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
1990
1282
1888
500 thousand years ago (ka)
20. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1764
1804
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
4th
21. 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
1494
400 ka
28 ka
1888
22. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1.8 million years ago
1804
2nd c. BC
1717
23. Flute in Germany
Early 3rd c. BC
35 ka
2nd
400 ka
24. 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
1802
c. 480 BC
7th c.
35 ka
25. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1995
563
1826
December 20 - 1951
26. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1990
1764
5th c. BC
1733
27. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1742
28 ka
1st c.
1878
28. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
c. 480 BC
1804
Ca. 300
408
29. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1560
5th c. BC
1st c.
1470s
30. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
1804
5th c. BC
1470s
1826
31. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1712
9th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
1877
32. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1826
1st c. BC
1480s
c. 240 BC
33. Pigments in Zambia
400 ka
1804
c. 240 BC
1802
34. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Late 3rd
1709
Early 3rd c. BC
1764
35. Noria in Roman Empire
9th c.
c. 480 BC
1286
Ca. 300
36. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1733
60 ka
1605
5th c. BC
37. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
December 20 - 1951
1709
400 ka
400 ka
38. 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
9th c.
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
4th
39. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1822
1480s
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1560
40. Pottery
1995
16 ka
1877
Early 3rd c. BC
41. Fire and then cooking
35 ka
35 ka
1709
1.8 million years ago
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.
Before 421 BC
5th c. BC
1282
1.8 million years ago
43. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1119
1439
1977
1877
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
1800-01
1088
Ca. 300
1439
45. 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
9th c.
1733
500 thousand years ago (ka)
408
46. Shelter construction
Late 3rd
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1st c. BC
c. 515 BC
47. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
2nd
1480s
2nd c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
48. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
After 205 BC
49. 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
500 thousand years ago (ka)
Early 3rd c. BC
9th c.
1977
50. 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.
9th c.
28 ka
1995
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)