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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






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. Bow






4. Friction Match - John Walker






5. 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






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






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






8. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






10. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






11. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)






12. Fire and then cooking






13. 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






14. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






15. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






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






18. Twisted rope






19. Shelter construction






20. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






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






23. Glue in Italy






24. 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






25. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






26. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






27. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






28. Spears in Germany






29. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






30. 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






31. Burial






32. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






33. 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.






34. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






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






37. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






38. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






39. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic






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






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






43. 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






44. Pigments in Zambia






45. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






46. 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






47. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






48. Friction Match - John Walker






49. 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






50. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.