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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. 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
2nd
408
5th/6th c.
2. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1709
200 ka
1282
563
3. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
1764
3rd c. BC
9th c.
c. 480 BC
4. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
36 ka
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1st
563
5. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
4th
563
1804
1877
6. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
1282
Before 421 BC
Late 3rd
3rd c. BC
7. Crane in Ancient Greece
400 ka
c. 515 BC
7th c.
408
8. Pottery
1470s
16 ka
7th c.
1717
9. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
14th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
1802
December 20 - 1951
10. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
60 ka
1st c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c.
11. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
400 ka
1826
1480s
5th c. BC
12. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
28 ka
1119
36 ka
5th c. BC
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
c. 480 BC
9th c.
1.8 million years ago
400 ka
14. Shelter construction
500 thousand years ago (ka)
672
14th c.
1.8 million years ago
15. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
200 ka
9th c.
5th/6th c.
3rd c. BC
16. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1605
3rd c. BC
1420s
1804
17. Friction Match - John Walker
36 ka
1826
After 205 BC
1995
18. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1st
1888
1494
1st c.
19. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1878
1977
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
20. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1764
c. 515 BC
2nd
5th c. BC
21. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1985
1800-01
2nd c. BC
1878
22. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1494
200 ka
1800-01
1958-59
23. Eyeglasses in Italy
1802
1286
16 ka
400 ka
24. 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
5th c. BC
16 ka
1119
1877
25. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
1888
Ca. 300
Before 421 BC
December 20 - 1951
26. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
c. 515 BC
c. 480 BC
2nd c. BC
672
27. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
4th
1712
1990
1709
28. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
After 205 BC
408
1286
2nd c. BC
29. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
1888
c. 240 BC
400 ka
30. Noria in Roman Empire
Ca. 300
1826
5th/6th c.
5th c. BC
31. 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
1119
1985
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1800-01
32. 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
1915
1709
1733
14th c.
33. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
Late 3rd
14th c.
1822
1605
34. Pottery
16 ka
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
c. 480 BC
35. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
4th
1802
5th c. BC
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.
1420s
5th c. BC
c. 240 BC
1088
37. 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
1742
Early 3rd c. BC
1995
5th c. BC
38. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1st c. BC
1878
1977
1877
39. Pigments in Zambia
Early 3rd c. BC
36 ka
1st
400 ka
40. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1.8 million years ago
Ca. 300
5th/6th c.
1470s
41. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1717
1801
400 ka
1733
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
1804
1560
14th c.
1st c. BC
43. 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
5th/6th c.
1985
1878
2nd c.
44. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
5th c. BC
Before 421 BC
2nd c. BC
1804
45. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
7th c.
1801
1802
2nd c. BC
46. 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.
1878
1420s
1990
1764
47. Cloth woven from flax fiber
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
36 ka
1470s
1764
48. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
4th
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1742
1439
49. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
2nd c. BC
1119
1470s
1800-01
50. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
c. 240 BC
1st c. BC
1995
5th c. BC