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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






2. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






3. Burial






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






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






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






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






8. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






9. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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






16. Noria in Roman Empire






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






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






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






20. Twisted rope






21. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






22. 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






23. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)






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






25. Burial






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






27. S






28. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






29. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently






30. Shelter construction






31. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






32. 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






33. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






34. Bow






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






36. Spears in Germany






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






38. 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






39. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






40. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






41. Pottery






42. Pigments in Zambia






43. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)






44. 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.






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






46. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.






47. 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






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






49. 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.






50. 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