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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






5. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






7. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)






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






9. Noria in Roman Empire






10. Fire and then cooking






11. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






12. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






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






15. Glue in Italy






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






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






18. Glue in Italy






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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






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






23. 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






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






25. 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






26. Friction Match - John Walker






27. 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






28. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






30. 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






31. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






33. Burial






34. Pigments in Zambia






35. 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






36. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)






37. Friction Match - John Walker






38. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






39. Pottery






40. 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.






41. Flute in Germany






42. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






44. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






45. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






46. Twisted rope






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






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






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






50. 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






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