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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire






2. Bow






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






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






5. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






6. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






7. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






8. 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.






9. Crane in Ancient Greece






10. Noria in Roman Empire






11. Fire and then cooking






12. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.






13. 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






14. Spears in Germany






15. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






16. Spears in Germany






17. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






18. 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






19. Cloth woven from flax fiber






20. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






21. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






22. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire






23. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






24. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire






25. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho






26. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






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






29. 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






30. Pigments in Zambia






31. 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.






32. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






33. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






35. Friction Match - John Walker






36. 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






37. 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






38. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily






39. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






40. 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.






41. Pottery






42. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert






43. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






44. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283






45. Bow






46. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire






47. Fire and then cooking






48. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280






49. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






50. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221