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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Friction Match - John Walker






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






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






4. 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






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






6. Spears in Germany






7. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






8. 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






9. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






10. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






12. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.






13. Noria in Roman Empire






14. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






16. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






17. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






19. Bow






20. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






21. Pigments in Zambia






22. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






23. Printing press in Mainz - Germany - The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440 - based on existing screw presses. The first confirmed record of a press appeared in a 1439 lawsuit against Gutenberg.






24. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






25. Flute in Germany






26. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






27. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






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






30. 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






31. 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






32. 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






33. Shelter construction






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






35. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






36. 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






37. Pottery






38. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






40. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire






41. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire






42. S






43. 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






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






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






46. 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






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






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






49. 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






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