Test your basic knowledge |

Timeline Of Historic Inventions

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






2. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






3. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






4. 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.






5. Pigments in Zambia






6. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






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






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






10. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






12. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






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






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






16. Shelter construction






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. 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






21. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






22. Eyeglasses in Italy






23. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






24. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






25. Fire and then cooking






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






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






28. Glue in Italy






29. S






30. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






31. 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






32. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






34. 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.






35. Burial






36. Crossbow in Ancient China and Ancient Greece - In Ancient China - the earliest evidence of bronze crossbow bolts dates as early as mid-5th century BC in Yutaishan - Hubei.In Ancient Greece - the terminus ante quem of the gastraphetes is 421 BC.






37. 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






38. Eyeglasses in Italy






39. Pigments in Zambia






40. 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






41. Twisted rope






42. 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






43. Spears in Germany






44. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






45. Flute in Germany






46. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






47. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






48. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






49. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






50. Noria in Roman Empire