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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






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






3. 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






4. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






6. 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.






7. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho






8. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






14. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






16. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






17. Fire and then cooking






18. Bow






19. 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






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






21. 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






22. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






23. Flute in Germany






24. 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






25. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire






26. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






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






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






30. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






31. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283






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






33. Pigments in Zambia






34. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






35. Noria in Roman Empire






36. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






37. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho






38. 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






39. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






40. Pottery






41. Fire and then cooking






42. 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.






43. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






44. 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






45. 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






46. Shelter construction






47. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






49. 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






50. 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.