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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
c. 240 BC
5th c. BC
1439
2. 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
1822
1878
1st c. BC
1990
3. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
5th c. BC
3rd c. BC
200 ka
2nd c.
4. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
5th c. BC
2nd c. BC
1802
1995
5. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1282
1712
1st
Early 3rd c. BC
6. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
36 ka
c. 480 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1877
7. 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
2nd c. BC
1088
1712
3rd c. BC
8. Noria in Roman Empire
1282
200 ka
5th/6th c.
Ca. 300
9. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1878
1709
400 ka
10. Twisted rope
1119
Early 3rd c. BC
28 ka
60 ka
11. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1764
2nd
200 ka
1878
12. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
Early 3rd c. BC
c. 480 BC
1712
1742
13. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1822
1717
1800-01
2nd c.
14. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1712
1826
3rd c. BC
1958-59
15. 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
7th c.
1802
2nd c. BC
1733
16. 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
1995
1990
1878
1st
17. 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
1119
1977
1420s
Late 3rd c.
18. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
672
Late 3rd c.
14th c.
160
19. Pigments in Zambia
1282
400 ka
1822
Ca. 300
20. Burial
9th c.
7th c.
160
1802
21. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
Ca. 300
3rd c. BC
563
500 thousand years ago (ka)
22. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1802
1088
672
December 20 - 1951
23. Cloth woven from flax fiber
36 ka
1878
1st c. BC
1282
24. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
5th/6th c.
60 ka
c. 240 BC
7th c.
25. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1877
1977
December 20 - 1951
1717
26. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd c. BC
1712
Ca. 300
27. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1605
c. 515 BC
Late 3rd c.
1494
28. S
1st
Early 3rd c. BC
1717
1712
29. Pottery
1804
c. 515 BC
16 ka
1888
30. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
2nd c. BC
December 20 - 1951
2nd c.
14th c.
31. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1878
1605
December 20 - 1951
1990
32. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
4th
1801
2nd c. BC
1990
33. 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.
1480s
1804
1st c. BC
5th c. BC
34. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1st c. BC
1977
1826
35. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
36 ka
c. 480 BC
After 205 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
36. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
1826
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1712
37. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
1826
1st c. BC
1804
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
38. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Late 3rd
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1878
1560
39. Burial
1877
60 ka
c. 240 BC
160
40. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1709
1733
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
2nd c. BC
41. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
160
c. 240 BC
1878
16 ka
42. 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
1119
35 ka
1.8 million years ago
Early 3rd c. BC
43. Friction Match - John Walker
1877
1286
1826
Late 3rd
44. 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
1420s
672
1804
1709
45. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1470s
28 ka
1878
1801
46. Flute in Germany
35 ka
160
1804
1915
47. Cast iron in Ancient China - Confirmed by archaeological evidence - the earliest cast iron was developed in China by the early 5th century BC during the Zhou Dynasty (1122
5th c. BC
2nd c. BC
14th c.
1878
48. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1717
2nd c. BC
28 ka
1877
49. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
160
1985
5th c. BC
c. 240 BC
50. Glue in Italy
1764
200 ka
Before 421 BC
1st c. BC