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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






4. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






5. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






6. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






8. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






9. 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






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






11. Spears in Germany






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






16. 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.






17. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






18. 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






19. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard






20. Pigments in Zambia






21. 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.






22. 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






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. Twisted rope






25. Noria in Roman Empire






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






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






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






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






30. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






31. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






33. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






34. 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






35. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






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






39. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






40. Bow






41. 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.






42. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






44. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






46. Glue in Italy






47. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






48. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






49. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






50. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.