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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






2. Pigments in Zambia






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






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






5. 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






6. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






7. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






8. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






9. 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.






10. Twisted rope






11. 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






12. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






13. Movable type in Ancient China - The first record of a movable type system is in the Dream Pool Essays written in 1088 - which attributed the invention of the movable type to Bi Sheng. In the 15th century - Johannes Gutenberg independently invented th






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






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16. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






17. Shelter construction






18. Movable type in Ancient China - The first record of a movable type system is in the Dream Pool Essays written in 1088 - which attributed the invention of the movable type to Bi Sheng. In the 15th century - Johannes Gutenberg independently invented th






19. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert






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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. Noria in Roman Empire






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






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






26. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






27. 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.






28. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






29. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






30. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






31. Glue in Italy






32. Burial






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






34. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






35. Fire and then cooking






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






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38. Bow






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






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






41. Glue in Italy






42. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






43. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






45. 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






46. Pigments in Zambia






47. 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






48. 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






49. Flute in Germany






50. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert