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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Spears in Germany






2. 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






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






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5. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






6. 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






7. Pottery






8. Pigments in Zambia






9. 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






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






11. Pigments in Zambia






12. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






13. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






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






17. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece






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






19. 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






20. Twisted rope






21. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






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






24. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






25. 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






26. Cloth woven from flax fiber






27. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






29. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather






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






31. Spears in Germany






32. Noria in Roman Empire






33. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






34. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






35. Friction Match - John Walker






36. Burial






37. Eyeglasses in Italy






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. Burial






44. 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






45. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






47. 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






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






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






50. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa