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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Pigments in Zambia
2nd c. BC
400 ka
2nd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
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
1915
1733
672
1709
3. Shelter construction
2nd c. BC
1st c.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1826
4. Burial
1977
160
5th c. BC
1915
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
9th c.
1605
Early 3rd c. BC
After 205 BC
6. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1733
1826
4th
2nd c. BC
7. Flute in Germany
35 ka
1826
1st
5th/6th c.
8. Fire and then cooking
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1.8 million years ago
160
1439
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.
1480s
5th c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
14th c.
10. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1888
Before 421 BC
1st c. BC
11. Noria in Roman Empire
1282
400 ka
1801
Ca. 300
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
1985
1605
1.8 million years ago
1470s
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.
4th
5th/6th c.
1995
1800-01
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
5th c. BC
9th c.
563
2nd
15. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd
1995
1800-01
16. Eyeglasses in Italy
1286
2nd c.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
c. 515 BC
17. Crane in Ancient Greece
2nd c.
c. 515 BC
1742
Early 3rd c. BC
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
28 ka
1119
35 ka
14th c.
19. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1712
1802
Late 3rd
2nd c. BC
20. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
3rd c. BC
14th c.
1420s
1560
21. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c. BC
1480s
1439
22. Glue in Italy
1958-59
1494
200 ka
1878
23. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1420s
1st c. BC
36 ka
1282
24. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
1709
Before 421 BC
December 20 - 1951
1822
25. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
2nd c. BC
Late 3rd c.
After 205 BC
2nd c.
26. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
563
500 thousand years ago (ka)
16 ka
9th c.
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
1470s
1878
c. 240 BC
672
28. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
1st c. BC
1990
2nd
2nd c. BC
29. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1st c. BC
1560
1977
1709
30. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1088
1958-59
16 ka
1494
31. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
60 ka
1119
1878
2nd c. BC
32. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
1888
Early 3rd c. BC
1733
3rd c. BC
33. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
Late 3rd
Before 421 BC
1494
1733
34. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1st
4th
1742
5th c. BC
35. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1822
2nd c.
5th/6th c.
1.8 million years ago
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
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
7th c.
1888
37. Shelter construction
1958-59
500 thousand years ago (ka)
After 205 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
38. Friction Match - John Walker
160
1560
35 ka
1826
39. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
c. 480 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1560
4th
40. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1420s
1878
672
After 205 BC
41. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1915
1888
Late 3rd
42. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
14th c.
1.8 million years ago
1470s
2nd c. BC
43. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1439
1st c. BC
2nd c.
1822
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
14th c.
200 ka
400 ka
672
45. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
1st c.
28 ka
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.
200 ka
1878
672
Ca. 300
47. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
36 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
400 ka
48. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
1119
408
Ca. 300
1977
49. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1800-01
1494
7th c.
1822
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
4th
1717
1878
1990