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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
408
1st
1990
1822
2. Pigments in Zambia
400 ka
1733
35 ka
60 ka
3. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1286
1282
1802
5th/6th c.
4. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1st c. BC
1877
400 ka
1286
5. 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
9th c.
1878
1977
400 ka
6. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
5th c. BC
1439
14th c.
1985
7. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
160
4th
Late 3rd
1733
8. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
7th c.
1709
1st c. BC
Late 3rd
9. 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.
1439
1.8 million years ago
2nd c. BC
1733
10. Twisted rope
Early 3rd c. BC
1088
1985
28 ka
11. 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
3rd c. BC
1605
1822
160
12. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
3rd c. BC
Late 3rd
1826
1494
13. 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
9th c.
563
1878
1088
14. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
4th
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
2nd c. BC
15. S
1717
160
563
1282
16. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1990
9th c.
160
1470s
17. Shelter construction
7th c.
160
500 thousand years ago (ka)
Ca. 300
18. 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
1.8 million years ago
1802
Ca. 300
19. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1.8 million years ago
1804
December 20 - 1951
1915
20. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
c. 480 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
December 20 - 1951
1878
21. 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
1990
672
2nd
5th c. BC
22. 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.
1439
1282
c. 240 BC
1990
23. Noria in Roman Empire
1742
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
Ca. 300
16 ka
24. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
c. 515 BC
Ca. 300
1800-01
2nd c. BC
25. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
Before 421 BC
Late 3rd c.
35 ka
5th/6th c.
26. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
1804
1958-59
1800-01
408
27. 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.
28 ka
3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
1119
28. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
2nd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
400 ka
14th c.
29. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
Early 3rd c. BC
1733
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1958-59
30. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
2nd c. BC
1st c.
672
31. Glue in Italy
1st
200 ka
1282
1709
32. Burial
Early 3rd c. BC
160
Before 421 BC
1480s
33. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
Ca. 300
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
34. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
2nd c. BC
1990
Before 421 BC
1st c. BC
35. Fire and then cooking
2nd
1985
1888
1.8 million years ago
36. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1990
Early 3rd c. BC
563
1480s
37. S
Late 3rd
563
1717
Early 3rd c. BC
38. Bow
35 ka
60 ka
1439
9th c.
39. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1742
400 ka
c. 240 BC
1958-59
40. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
1800-01
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
2nd
41. Glue in Italy
200 ka
1st
2nd c. BC
16 ka
42. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1480s
December 20 - 1951
7th c.
43. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1802
1717
Late 3rd
1282
44. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
December 20 - 1951
5th/6th c.
2nd
45. 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
1801
672
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c.
46. Pigments in Zambia
Early 3rd c. BC
1915
1804
400 ka
47. 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
1958-59
2nd c. BC
Before 421 BC
1888
48. 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
1804
1742
December 20 - 1951
9th c.
49. Flute in Germany
1439
December 20 - 1951
35 ka
1826
50. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1990
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1877
1804