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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
400 ka
After 205 BC
1709
5th c. BC
2. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
c. 480 BC
1800-01
7th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
3. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1420s
4th
60 ka
1st
4. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1995
1480s
1282
Late 3rd c.
5. Cloth woven from flax fiber
200 ka
36 ka
9th c.
160
6. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
400 ka
1119
400 ka
1282
7. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1877
1709
1888
2nd c. BC
8. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
16 ka
14th c.
5th/6th c.
1877
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
9th c.
1439
2nd c. BC
1712
10. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1764
563
2nd
1958-59
11. 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
1977
14th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
Late 3rd
12. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
5th c. BC
Late 3rd c.
1st
400 ka
13. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
3rd c. BC
1995
14th c.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
14. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
2nd c. BC
1742
2nd c. BC
1st
15. 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.
1439
3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
1494
16. Crane in Ancient Greece
Before 421 BC
1764
c. 515 BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
17. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1282
1995
1801
1995
18. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
14th c.
9th c.
2nd c. BC
1995
19. Flute in Germany
35 ka
563
1888
1958-59
20. 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
1764
5th c. BC
1878
1119
21. 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.
1088
Ca. 300
1439
4th
22. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
9th c.
Late 3rd c.
1878
23. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
2nd c.
1977
4th
5th/6th c.
24. 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
672
1.8 million years ago
Early 3rd c. BC
1958-59
25. 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
5th c. BC
1985
c. 515 BC
7th c.
26. Shelter construction
2nd
2nd c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1282
27. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
16 ka
2nd c. BC
28. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1717
1877
5th c. BC
29. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
Before 421 BC
5th/6th c.
c. 480 BC
16 ka
30. Pigments in Zambia
3rd c. BC
1717
400 ka
1480s
31. 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.
1282
c. 480 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1878
32. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1709
1.8 million years ago
1st c. BC
60 ka
33. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
1800-01
60 ka
2nd
1494
34. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1560
5th c. BC
1826
1804
35. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1286
1605
1709
9th c.
36. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
Ca. 300
After 205 BC
5th c. BC
c. 240 BC
37. Flute in Germany
1764
35 ka
1878
1804
38. 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
1804
1985
After 205 BC
1822
39. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
5th c. BC
Late 3rd
1282
2nd c.
40. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1494
2nd c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1801
41. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
1439
1st c. BC
1804
42. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
1958-59
Late 3rd c.
Before 421 BC
400 ka
43. Pottery
Before 421 BC
16 ka
1282
1480s
44. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
Early 3rd c. BC
Late 3rd c.
16 ka
45. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1878
1470s
1st c. BC
1802
46. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1470s
1st c. BC
563
1286
47. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1470s
1877
1420s
1st c. BC
48. Banknote in Tang Dynasty China - The banknote was first developed in China during the Tang and Song dynasties - starting in the 7th century. Its roots were in merchant receipts of deposit during the Tang Dynasty (618
1800-01
1717
1733
7th c.
49. S
408
1560
1717
5th c. BC
50. Noria in Roman Empire
1712
1888
Ca. 300
1480s