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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






3. 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






4. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






5. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






7. 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






8. 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






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






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






11. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






12. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






13. Fire and then cooking






14. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






15. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






17. Bow






18. 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.






19. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280






20. 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






21. 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






22. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






23. Eyeglasses in Italy






24. 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.






25. Bow






26. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






27. 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.






28. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






29. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






30. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






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






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






34. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






36. Burial






37. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






39. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






40. 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






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






42. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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44. Noria in Roman Empire






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






46. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






47. 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






48. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)






49. 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.






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