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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. 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
563
1915
1822
2. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1119
1st c. BC
1420s
After 205 BC
3. 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
1958-59
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
9th c.
4. 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
2nd c.
160
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1977
5. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1st
200 ka
December 20 - 1951
5th c. BC
6. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
4th
December 20 - 1951
2nd c. BC
Ca. 300
7. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1st c. BC
1282
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c. BC
8. 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
7th c.
5th c. BC
1119
1877
9. 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
1802
After 205 BC
5th c. BC
9th c.
10. 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.
Early 3rd c. BC
1878
c. 515 BC
60 ka
11. 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
563
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1822
1439
12. S
1st
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c.
1717
13. 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
1286
1990
16 ka
Ca. 300
14. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1804
2nd c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
After 205 BC
15. Fire and then cooking
14th c.
Ca. 300
1.8 million years ago
c. 515 BC
16. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
3rd c. BC
c. 240 BC
1804
1605
17. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
200 ka
2nd c. BC
1733
1764
18. 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
Early 3rd c. BC
60 ka
1119
9th c.
19. Friction Match - John Walker
1826
1800-01
1990
7th c.
20. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
3rd c. BC
1st
1st c. BC
1742
21. 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
1470s
1915
1088
1420s
22. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
2nd c. BC
Late 3rd
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1.8 million years ago
23. 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
1990
1995
1088
16 ka
24. 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
1733
1088
1822
25. Crane in Ancient Greece
1712
2nd c. BC
c. 515 BC
1733
26. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
December 20 - 1951
1915
2nd c. BC
1733
27. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
2nd c. BC
563
16 ka
36 ka
28. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
1764
c. 515 BC
c. 240 BC
14th c.
29. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1286
1878
1985
After 205 BC
30. 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
1878
400 ka
9th c.
2nd
31. 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
Late 3rd c.
7th c.
1560
After 205 BC
32. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
408
4th
400 ka
33. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
5th c. BC
7th c.
5th/6th c.
1119
34. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
c. 240 BC
1877
672
1802
35. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
Before 421 BC
400 ka
1742
Early 3rd c. BC
36. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
28 ka
1605
1990
37. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1st c. BC
Before 421 BC
1804
Early 3rd c. BC
38. Shelter construction
500 thousand years ago (ka)
400 ka
2nd c. BC
1801
39. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1878
7th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
c. 515 BC
40. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1st c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1480s
1800-01
41. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1915
2nd
36 ka
1470s
42. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
36 ka
16 ka
1605
Early 3rd c. BC
43. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1804
1990
1717
563
44. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1st c.
Early 3rd c. BC
7th c.
1800-01
45. Pottery
1742
5th c. BC
16 ka
1712
46. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
c. 240 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
1712
47. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1st c. BC
1480s
1st c.
1990
48. 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.
1494
4th
1439
1286
49. Shelter construction
1.8 million years ago
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd c. BC
36 ka
50. Glue in Italy
200 ka
1764
1733
Late 3rd