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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
Late 3rd c.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1826
1995
2. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1958-59
5th c. BC
Ca. 300
Late 3rd c.
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
1990
1802
1958-59
1888
4. 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
1804
2nd c. BC
1915
1088
5. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1878
1804
1470s
1915
6. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
2nd c.
1958-59
1709
2nd c. BC
7. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1286
5th/6th c.
1990
1420s
8. 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
Early 3rd c. BC
672
7th c.
c. 480 BC
9. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1826
1742
672
1282
10. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
563
4th
1888
1.8 million years ago
11. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
2nd c.
1st c. BC
1801
1560
12. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
December 20 - 1951
1802
672
2nd c.
13. 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.
2nd c.
1439
1802
Ca. 300
14. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
160
672
c. 240 BC
672
15. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
1.8 million years ago
408
1878
5th c. BC
16. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
9th c.
28 ka
5th c. BC
1560
17. 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
1088
1915
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
2nd c. BC
18. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1804
1st c. BC
5th c. BC
1995
19. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1977
1709
1605
December 20 - 1951
20. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
5th/6th c.
1990
1826
14th c.
21. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1878
400 ka
16 ka
Late 3rd c.
22. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
1878
35 ka
1802
c. 480 BC
23. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1877
1995
c. 480 BC
Late 3rd c.
24. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1119
1560
1439
2nd c. BC
25. 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.
9th c.
1439
2nd c. BC
1995
26. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
36 ka
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1985
c. 240 BC
27. Bow
60 ka
1st c. BC
16 ka
1.8 million years ago
28. 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
1605
1977
1888
1420s
29. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1282
7th c.
1826
3rd c. BC
30. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1494
1480s
1717
1877
31. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1286
1802
200 ka
2nd c. BC
32. Shelter construction
1282
Late 3rd c.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
4th
33. Pigments in Zambia
2nd c.
1st c. BC
1877
400 ka
34. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Late 3rd
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1800-01
1915
35. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1717
500 thousand years ago (ka)
14th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
36. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
7th c.
1st c.
2nd c. BC
5th/6th c.
37. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1804
2nd c. BC
1560
2nd c.
38. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1709
36 ka
2nd c. BC
1470s
39. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
Late 3rd c.
9th c.
1st c.
40. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1119
1804
1470s
2nd c. BC
41. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
Before 421 BC
1804
1958-59
5th/6th c.
42. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
3rd c. BC
1804
Late 3rd c.
1286
43. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
c. 240 BC
1915
1742
5th c. BC
44. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1804
Late 3rd
1st c.
1995
45. 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
9th c.
672
1990
1.8 million years ago
46. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1958-59
1st c. BC
c. 480 BC
3rd c. BC
47. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
Ca. 300
1822
9th c.
1958-59
48. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
36 ka
563
1470s
2nd c. BC
49. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
Before 421 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
After 205 BC
2nd c. BC
50. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
5th c. BC
1990
408
c. 480 BC