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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
December 20 - 1951
14th c.
2nd
1088
2. Bow
Early 3rd c. BC
35 ka
60 ka
1915
3. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
5th c. BC
5th/6th c.
1282
1800-01
4. 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
14th c.
1977
5th c. BC
1800-01
5. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1958-59
1709
1822
2nd c. BC
6. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
2nd c.
14th c.
60 ka
563
7. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1822
1605
8. 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.
1878
1420s
1420s
1802
9. Crane in Ancient Greece
1st
9th c.
c. 515 BC
5th c. BC
10. Noria in Roman Empire
December 20 - 1951
Ca. 300
Early 3rd c. BC
1605
11. Fire and then cooking
1977
1804
1.8 million years ago
1088
12. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
1470s
1st
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
13. 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
160
7th c.
16 ka
14th c.
14. Spears in Germany
563
1804
400 ka
1985
15. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1733
1480s
35 ka
After 205 BC
16. Spears in Germany
Ca. 300
1977
400 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
17. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
Before 421 BC
1470s
4th
18. 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
1st c. BC
35 ka
Late 3rd
9th c.
19. Cloth woven from flax fiber
35 ka
36 ka
28 ka
28 ka
20. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1878
5th c. BC
1804
5th c. BC
21. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
1st c. BC
1420s
1878
14th c.
22. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1878
563
1977
500 thousand years ago (ka)
23. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1733
1480s
2nd c. BC
3rd c. BC
24. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
4th
1733
14th c.
160
25. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
December 20 - 1951
1420s
1804
1977
26. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1764
After 205 BC
1439
1560
27. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
1st
4th
1915
Late 3rd c.
28. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1977
1st c. BC
1st c.
400 ka
29. 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
1822
1420s
Ca. 300
1088
30. Pigments in Zambia
400 ka
1470s
Early 3rd c. BC
7th c.
31. 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.
200 ka
1804
1709
1439
32. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
5th c. BC
1088
60 ka
After 205 BC
33. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
2nd c. BC
1480s
5th c. BC
1877
34. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
2nd c. BC
1560
1.8 million years ago
c. 240 BC
35. Friction Match - John Walker
1801
1088
2nd
1826
36. 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
9th c.
1717
1733
2nd c. BC
37. 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
1985
1439
1804
28 ka
38. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
Early 3rd c. BC
1709
1420s
c. 240 BC
39. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1804
9th c.
1995
1st
40. 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.
5th c. BC
1995
1560
28 ka
41. Pottery
672
2nd c. BC
1709
16 ka
42. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
After 205 BC
1st c.
1804
1985
43. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
Before 421 BC
1742
1801
1st c. BC
44. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
1877
1733
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
45. Bow
60 ka
35 ka
9th c.
Late 3rd
46. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
60 ka
672
1282
4th
47. Fire and then cooking
Late 3rd
2nd c. BC
2nd
1.8 million years ago
48. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
3rd c. BC
1985
1804
2nd c. BC
49. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
1802
Before 421 BC
5th/6th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
50. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
After 205 BC
35 ka
Before 421 BC
14th c.