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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1977
1802
1800-01
5th/6th c.
2. Glue in Italy
2nd c. BC
200 ka
14th c.
Before 421 BC
3. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1st c. BC
After 205 BC
60 ka
1877
4. 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.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1878
672
1439
5. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
1826
1088
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
14th c.
6. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1958-59
1878
Late 3rd
5th c. BC
7. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
3rd c. BC
14th c.
1888
8. 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.
1286
1800-01
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
9. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1822
1742
c. 515 BC
1804
10. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1822
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
c. 480 BC
5th c. BC
11. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
December 20 - 1951
2nd
408
3rd c. BC
12. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
35 ka
563
c. 515 BC
13. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
400 ka
1801
2nd c. BC
14th c.
14. Burial
1878
160
672
Late 3rd
15. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1439
5th/6th c.
7th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
16. 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
1877
1888
672
1742
17. 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.
1560
1801
Ca. 300
5th c. BC
18. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
5th c. BC
1888
1282
After 205 BC
19. Shelter construction
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1420s
9th c.
1st
20. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
1286
3rd c. BC
1470s
1282
21. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
2nd c. BC
1878
1282
400 ka
22. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
1st c.
Ca. 300
2nd c. BC
3rd c. BC
23. Pigments in Zambia
1764
1822
1958-59
400 ka
24. Fire and then cooking
1.8 million years ago
Ca. 300
1878
3rd c. BC
25. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
7th c.
1958-59
1877
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
26. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
1742
9th c.
c. 480 BC
5th c. BC
27. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
14th c.
Before 421 BC
1804
Early 3rd c. BC
28. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
5th c. BC
1742
1800-01
9th c.
29. 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
16 ka
1985
1st c.
1088
30. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
1494
60 ka
1888
2nd
31. Cloth woven from flax fiber
Early 3rd c. BC
16 ka
60 ka
36 ka
32. Crane in Ancient Greece
28 ka
c. 515 BC
Late 3rd c.
1888
33. 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
1st c.
1119
1878
1088
34. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
5th c. BC
28 ka
Late 3rd
1804
35. Pottery
1.8 million years ago
16 ka
1470s
1.8 million years ago
36. Twisted rope
2nd c. BC
28 ka
1717
2nd
37. A CD-ROM (an acronym of 'Compact Disc Read-only memory') is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to - but not writable by - a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985
1709
1958-59
1985
1802
38. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
60 ka
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
2nd c. BC
Late 3rd c.
39. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
Late 3rd
5th/6th c.
1985
1st c.
40. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1822
1800-01
1733
1st
41. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
Ca. 300
December 20 - 1951
1605
2nd c.
42. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
14th c.
1420s
563
1439
43. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1480s
1826
1470s
1st c. BC
44. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1802
1.8 million years ago
Ca. 300
1709
45. Shelter construction
1800-01
1801
2nd c.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
46. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1st c. BC
1804
December 20 - 1951
7th c.
47. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1822
1709
1712
2nd c. BC
48. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
16 ka
c. 480 BC
60 ka
2nd c.
49. 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
2nd c. BC
1990
1286
December 20 - 1951
50. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1800-01
14th c.
After 205 BC
1st c. BC