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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






5. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






7. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






9. 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






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






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






12. Pigments in Zambia






13. Pigments in Zambia






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






15. Bow






16. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






17. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






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






20. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






21. Spears in Germany






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






23. 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.






24. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






26. 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.






27. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






28. 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






29. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






30. 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






31. 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






32. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






34. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






35. Noria in Roman Empire






36. 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.






37. Fire and then cooking






38. 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






39. 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






40. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






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






43. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






44. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






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






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






48. 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






49. 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






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