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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Pottery






2. Fire and then cooking






3. 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






4. Pigments in Zambia






5. Eyeglasses in Italy






6. Pigments in Zambia






7. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






8. 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.






9. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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11. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283






12. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






14. Noria in Roman Empire






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






16. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






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






19. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






20. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






21. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






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






24. Noria in Roman Empire






25. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






27. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






28. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






30. 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.






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






32. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






33. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283






34. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






35. Shelter construction






36. Burial






37. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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. 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






40. 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.






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






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






43. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






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






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






48. Burial






49. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






50. Lateen sail in Roman Empire