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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Pottery






2. Fire and then cooking






3. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






5. Cloth woven from flax fiber






6. 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






7. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






8. 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






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






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






11. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






12. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.






13. Friction Match - John Walker






14. 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






15. Crane in Ancient Greece






16. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






17. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






18. Pottery






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






20. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






21. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






22. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280






23. 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






24. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






25. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






26. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






27. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






28. Bow






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






30. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280






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






32. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






33. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






34. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






35. Pigments in Zambia






36. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






38. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






39. S






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






41. 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






42. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






43. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






44. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic






45. Mariner's compass (wet compass) in Ancient China - The earliest recorded use of magnetized needle for navigational purposes at sea is found in Zhu Yu's book Pingzhou Table Talks of 1119 (written from 1111 to 1117). The typical Chinese navigational co






46. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)






47. Shelter construction






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






49. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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