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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Bow






2. Friction Match - John Walker






3. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






4. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






5. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






6. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






7. Pottery






8. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.






9. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






19. Burial






20. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






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






24. 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






25. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






27. Twisted rope






28. 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






29. Crane in Ancient Greece






30. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






31. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






32. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






33. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






34. Glue in Italy






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






36. Spears in Germany






37. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






39. Pigments in Zambia






40. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






41. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






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. Shelter construction






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. 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






47. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






49. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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