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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Pigments in Zambia






2. 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






3. Shelter construction






4. Burial






5. 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






6. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






7. Flute in Germany






8. Fire and then cooking






9. 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.






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






11. Noria in Roman Empire






12. 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






13. 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.






14. 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






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






16. Eyeglasses in Italy






17. Crane in Ancient Greece






18. 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






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






20. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






22. Glue in Italy






23. Cloth woven from flax fiber






24. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






25. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire






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






27. 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






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






29. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






30. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






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






33. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






34. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






35. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






36. 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






37. Shelter construction






38. Friction Match - John Walker






39. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)






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






41. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






48. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






50. 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