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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






3. Twisted rope






4. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






5. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






7. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






8. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






9. 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






10. Mariner's compass (wet compass) in Ancient China - The earliest recorded use of magnetized needle for navigational purposes at sea is found in Zhu Yu's book Pingzhou Table Talks of 1119 (written from 1111 to 1117). The typical Chinese navigational co






11. Friction Match - John Walker






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. 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.






14. Shelter construction






15. 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






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






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






18. 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






19. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283






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






21. 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.






22. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






24. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






25. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






27. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






28. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






29. 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






30. Bow






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






32. 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






33. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)






34. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






35. Burial






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. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






38. Noria in Roman Empire






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






40. Noria in Roman Empire






41. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire






42. Glue in Italy






43. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






44. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






45. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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






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