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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
2nd c.
1420s
1742
c. 240 BC
2. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
14th c.
1822
500 thousand years ago (ka)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
3. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
1822
Early 3rd c. BC
1.8 million years ago
4. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1977
408
1470s
5. Pottery
5th/6th c.
408
16 ka
7th c.
6. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1878
35 ka
408
1st
7. 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
1801
Early 3rd c. BC
1439
8. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Ca. 300
Late 3rd
408
1560
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
563
Early 3rd c. BC
7th c.
9th c.
10. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1742
1915
1877
11. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
c. 480 BC
36 ka
28 ka
1764
12. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1985
1915
400 ka
1470s
13. Eyeglasses in Italy
5th c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
408
1286
14. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
28 ka
2nd
1717
14th c.
15. Glue in Italy
200 ka
7th c.
1877
1742
16. S
4th
1877
1717
1494
17. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
2nd c. BC
1995
c. 240 BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
18. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1494
Late 3rd
1088
5th c. BC
19. Pigments in Zambia
1470s
1995
1.8 million years ago
400 ka
20. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
Early 3rd c. BC
1804
1878
Late 3rd c.
21. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c.
1st c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
22. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
3rd c. BC
35 ka
563
400 ka
23. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
1801
1733
1878
24. 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.
9th c.
1958-59
1995
Early 3rd c. BC
25. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1733
1800-01
1470s
1804
26. Glue in Italy
200 ka
1802
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c. BC
27. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
1733
2nd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
4th
28. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
3rd c. BC
1712
1st
14th c.
29. 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
1.8 million years ago
1985
36 ka
35 ka
30. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
Early 3rd c. BC
5th/6th c.
5th c. BC
5th/6th c.
31. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
1494
400 ka
1977
32. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
4th
3rd c. BC
1826
Before 421 BC
33. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1420s
c. 515 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1822
34. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1088
1494
December 20 - 1951
Early 3rd c. BC
35. S
1717
1709
c. 240 BC
1.8 million years ago
36. 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
1119
Ca. 300
60 ka
1958-59
37. 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
1826
2nd c. BC
9th c.
1712
38. Crane in Ancient Greece
1709
1877
c. 515 BC
9th c.
39. 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
1888
4th
400 ka
1088
40. Pigments in Zambia
400 ka
1470s
5th/6th c.
1990
41. 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
1709
1470s
1st c. BC
42. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1.8 million years ago
1826
1958-59
1494
43. Noria in Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
160
28 ka
Ca. 300
44. Friction Match - John Walker
2nd c. BC
1826
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
Early 3rd c. BC
45. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
2nd
200 ka
563
16 ka
46. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1888
9th c.
1822
47. 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.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1985
1878
1282
48. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1420s
Late 3rd
5th c. BC
1990
49. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
408
9th c.
1802
Before 421 BC
50. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1764
1915
1804
200 ka
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