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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Bow






2. 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






3. Burial






4. Glue in Italy






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






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






7. Crane in Ancient Greece






8. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






9. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






10. Fire and then cooking






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






12. Bow






13. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






14. Noria in Roman Empire






15. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






16. Spears in Germany






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






18. 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






19. 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






20. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






22. Eyeglasses in Italy






23. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






24. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






25. Friction Match - John Walker






26. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






27. 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






28. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






29. Fire and then cooking






30. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






31. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






32. 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






33. 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






34. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






35. 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






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






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






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






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






40. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






41. 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






42. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)






43. 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.






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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






48. Twisted rope






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






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







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