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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






2. Spears in Germany






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






4. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






5. 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






6. 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






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






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






9. 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






10. Noria in Roman Empire






11. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






12. 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.






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






14. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






15. Pottery






16. Shelter construction






17. Crane in Ancient Greece






18. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






20. Spears in Germany






21. Crane in Ancient Greece






22. Burial






23. 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






24. 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






25. Pottery






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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. Friction Match - John Walker






30. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






32. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






33. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






35. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






36. Friction Match - John Walker






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






38. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






39. Twisted rope






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






41. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






42. Noria in Roman Empire






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






44. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






45. 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






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






47. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






48. 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.






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






50. 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







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