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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Fire and then cooking
1480s
1.8 million years ago
Early 3rd c. BC
563
2. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
2nd
1804
1439
1990
3. 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
1742
1st
1888
1088
4. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1494
1st
1st c.
1st c. BC
5. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1826
1804
1605
28 ka
6. S
Early 3rd c. BC
1717
1977
1709
7. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1712
1802
Before 421 BC
1439
8. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
1439
Early 3rd c. BC
36 ka
1088
9. Flute in Germany
1282
35 ka
400 ka
1915
10. Bow
60 ka
500 thousand years ago (ka)
3rd c. BC
4th
11. 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
28 ka
1802
5th c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
12. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
c. 515 BC
400 ka
Late 3rd
2nd c. BC
13. Noria in Roman Empire
Ca. 300
1286
1822
1878
14. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1712
1282
1439
1822
15. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
1977
1420s
Before 421 BC
Ca. 300
16. Glue in Italy
200 ka
2nd c. BC
1494
400 ka
17. 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.
1977
1088
1800-01
1439
18. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1764
1958-59
1282
1985
19. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
9th c.
1282
160
1709
20. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1480s
1877
200 ka
1.8 million years ago
21. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
Early 3rd c. BC
5th/6th c.
Before 421 BC
1878
22. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1800-01
After 205 BC
1764
7th c.
23. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1282
Late 3rd
5th c. BC
1.8 million years ago
24. Cloth woven from flax fiber
36 ka
1717
9th c.
200 ka
25. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1712
After 205 BC
563
c. 515 BC
26. 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.
14th c.
4th
1995
1958-59
27. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1878
1977
1439
1605
28. Glue in Italy
9th c.
672
1802
200 ka
29. Flute in Germany
35 ka
16 ka
1826
7th c.
30. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
408
563
14th c.
160
31. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
1480s
2nd
5th/6th c.
32. Eyeglasses in Italy
After 205 BC
5th c. BC
1286
2nd
33. 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.
200 ka
1985
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
34. Pigments in Zambia
5th c. BC
9th c.
400 ka
14th c.
35. Bow
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1st c. BC
60 ka
36. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1802
1742
35 ka
1878
37. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
1.8 million years ago
1878
1742
38. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
2nd c. BC
1480s
Early 3rd c. BC
9th c.
39. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1st c. BC
1717
1742
1878
40. 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.
Early 3rd c. BC
5th/6th c.
16 ka
1878
41. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
December 20 - 1951
9th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
7th c.
42. 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
Before 421 BC
1804
1801
672
43. Shelter construction
200 ka
c. 515 BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1977
44. Pottery
16 ka
2nd c. BC
After 205 BC
28 ka
45. 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.
1878
Before 421 BC
1286
1733
46. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
9th c.
1282
1286
47. 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.
1282
c. 515 BC
1977
1439
48. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1st
1560
5th c. BC
7th c.
49. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1802
36 ka
1560
1800-01
50. Burial
Late 3rd
1977
2nd c. BC
160