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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






2. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






3. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






4. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






6. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






7. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






9. 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






10. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






11. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






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. Pottery






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






16. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)






17. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






19. Twisted rope






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






21. Shelter construction






22. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






23. 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.






24. Burial






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






26. Spears in Germany






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






28. 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






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






30. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






32. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






33. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






35. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






36. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






38. Noria in Roman Empire






39. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






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






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






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. Flute in Germany






48. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






49. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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







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