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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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.






2. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert






3. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






4. Flute in Germany






5. Crane in Ancient Greece






6. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283






7. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






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.






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






11. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






12. 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






13. Eyeglasses in Italy






14. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






15. 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






16. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






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






19. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






20. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






21. 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






22. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard






23. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






24. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire






25. Noria in Roman Empire






26. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






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






29. 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






30. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






31. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






32. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






34. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






35. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






36. Cloth woven from flax fiber






37. 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






38. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






39. 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






40. Pigments in Zambia






41. Noria in Roman Empire






42. Spears in Germany






43. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






44. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently






45. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






46. 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






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. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






49. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






50. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)