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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1888
1915
1560
Before 421 BC
2. 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
1822
1717
1802
9th c.
3. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1439
Early 3rd c. BC
4th
2nd c. BC
4. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
c. 480 BC
After 205 BC
Before 421 BC
14th c.
5. Glue in Italy
200 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
1878
1.8 million years ago
6. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1878
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
7. 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.
5th c. BC
1804
1995
1.8 million years ago
8. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
200 ka
408
1977
1804
9. 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
1764
1088
1822
1764
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
1st c.
1119
2nd c. BC
1088
11. Glue in Italy
1878
c. 480 BC
200 ka
1420s
12. 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
1888
1995
5th/6th c.
Late 3rd c.
13. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1st c. BC
1286
1st c. BC
1800-01
14. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
1822
9th c.
1282
15. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1742
1st
1605
2nd c.
16. Pigments in Zambia
After 205 BC
400 ka
1977
200 ka
17. Pottery
1985
16 ka
1800-01
1878
18. Noria in Roman Empire
1822
Ca. 300
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
19. 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.
Before 421 BC
14th c.
1995
400 ka
20. Shelter construction
1088
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1764
1605
21. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
1800-01
1995
1800-01
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
22. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
2nd c.
200 ka
16 ka
23. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1877
14th c.
After 205 BC
1605
24. 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
Early 3rd c. BC
Late 3rd c.
1088
c. 515 BC
25. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1733
1st c.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1985
26. Fire and then cooking
Ca. 300
1.8 million years ago
After 205 BC
36 ka
27. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1439
December 20 - 1951
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1st
28. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1439
1st c. BC
3rd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
29. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
c. 480 BC
After 205 BC
2nd
Early 3rd c. BC
30. 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
16 ka
1st c.
4th
5th c. BC
31. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
563
2nd
1826
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
32. 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.
5th c. BC
28 ka
3rd c. BC
1470s
33. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
c. 515 BC
400 ka
1709
1878
34. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
200 ka
28 ka
1804
1494
35. Twisted rope
3rd c. BC
7th c.
28 ka
7th c.
36. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
5th c. BC
1st c.
2nd c. BC
Ca. 300
37. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
35 ka
9th c.
1801
3rd c. BC
38. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1470s
1420s
9th c.
7th c.
39. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
1764
2nd c. BC
c. 240 BC
5th/6th c.
40. 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
1712
Before 421 BC
9th c.
7th c.
41. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
2nd c. BC
200 ka
1764
5th c. BC
42. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
14th c.
9th c.
1822
1119
43. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
36 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd
After 205 BC
44. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
Before 421 BC
Ca. 300
1764
5th c. BC
45. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
5th/6th c.
16 ka
14th c.
400 ka
46. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1st c. BC
1990
1804
200 ka
47. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
2nd c.
1470s
1915
1286
48. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
14th c.
1958-59
1822
1480s
49. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1802
200 ka
2nd c. BC
400 ka
50. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1494
2nd
1733
563