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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






2. The electric light bulb was first patented in England by 1878 by Joseph Swan after having experimented since about 1850. Thomas Edison in the U.S. was working on improving the bulb patented by Swan and was granted a U.S. patent in 1879.






3. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






4. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






5. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






7. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






9. Crane in Ancient Greece






10. Cloth woven from flax fiber






11. Cloth woven from flax fiber






12. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC






13. Shelter construction






14. Pottery






15. 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






16. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






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






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






20. Spears in Germany






21. Shelter construction






22. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






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






25. Bow






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






27. Bow






28. 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






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






30. Burial






31. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






32. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






33. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






34. Pigments in Zambia






35. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






36. Burial






37. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






39. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






40. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






42. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






43. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






44. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






46. 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






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






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






49. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






50. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain