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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Pottery
16 ka
December 20 - 1951
200 ka
c. 515 BC
2. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
7th c.
c. 480 BC
36 ka
1282
3. Noria in Roman Empire
Ca. 300
9th c.
14th c.
2nd c. BC
4. 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
5th/6th c.
672
1733
9th c.
5. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
c. 515 BC
60 ka
1286
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
6. Twisted rope
3rd c. BC
1286
28 ka
500 thousand years ago (ka)
7. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
14th c.
1088
160
1st c.
8. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
2nd c. BC
563
1877
1733
9. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1088
1742
1560
5th c. BC
10. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1560
c. 515 BC
60 ka
1282
11. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
5th c. BC
Ca. 300
1742
7th c.
12. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
5th c. BC
7th c.
1800-01
c. 480 BC
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.
1742
1733
1878
1995
14. Twisted rope
1st
28 ka
60 ka
1877
15. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
Early 3rd c. BC
408
5th/6th c.
1877
16. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
1826
60 ka
Before 421 BC
1st
17. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
2nd c.
1888
1605
3rd c. BC
18. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
c. 480 BC
2nd c.
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
19. 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
Before 421 BC
1st c. BC
1888
1958-59
20. 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
2nd c. BC
1480s
1985
1st
21. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
Early 3rd c. BC
1985
1282
1800-01
22. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
9th c.
563
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1470s
23. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
4th
Early 3rd c. BC
1915
1804
24. 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.
9th c.
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1420s
25. 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
1.8 million years ago
2nd c. BC
1822
1717
26. 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
Late 3rd
1878
1088
1888
27. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
4th
2nd c. BC
c. 515 BC
5th c. BC
28. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c.
2nd c. BC
3rd c. BC
29. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
1733
408
Late 3rd
1st c. BC
30. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
c. 240 BC
2nd
563
2nd c. BC
31. Bow
1st
60 ka
Late 3rd c.
16 ka
32. Shelter construction
1878
Early 3rd c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd
33. Noria in Roman Empire
28 ka
c. 515 BC
1088
Ca. 300
34. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
400 ka
1801
Late 3rd
December 20 - 1951
35. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1286
2nd
1877
1st
36. Pigments in Zambia
2nd c. BC
200 ka
Ca. 300
400 ka
37. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1804
1915
400 ka
3rd c. BC
38. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
c. 515 BC
3rd c. BC
1977
2nd c. BC
39. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
1st c.
1282
1800-01
40. 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.
1560
1119
After 205 BC
1878
41. 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
1st c. BC
Before 421 BC
28 ka
42. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1420s
1st c.
5th c. BC
1480s
43. 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
2nd c. BC
400 ka
1878
44. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1733
Early 3rd c. BC
36 ka
1286
45. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1958-59
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1826
1494
46. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
408
1494
60 ka
1st c. BC
47. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1822
400 ka
1733
Late 3rd
48. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
200 ka
5th/6th c.
1439
Early 3rd c. BC
49. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
1977
5th c. BC
Before 421 BC
1800-01
50. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1480s
1801
1712
1.8 million years ago