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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Shelter construction






2. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






3. Flute in Germany






4. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






5. Spears in Germany






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






7. 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






8. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)






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






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






11. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






12. A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or customized computer system that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device (a television - monitor - etc.) to display a video game. The term 'video game con






13. 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






14. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






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






17. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






18. Eyeglasses in Italy






19. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






20. Fire and then cooking






21. Pottery






22. 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






23. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






24. 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






25. Pigments in Zambia






26. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






27. Fire and then cooking






28. 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.






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






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






31. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire






32. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire






33. 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






34. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






35. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






36. 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






37. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






38. 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.






39. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






40. Twisted rope






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






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






43. 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.






44. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






45. 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






46. 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






47. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






49. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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