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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Friction Match - John Walker






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






3. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






4. 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






5. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






6. 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






7. Crane in Ancient Greece






8. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






9. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






11. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






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






14. 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






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






16. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






17. 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






18. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






19. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






21. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






22. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






24. 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






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






26. Cloth woven from flax fiber






27. Pigments in Zambia






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






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






38. Friction Match - John Walker






39. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






40. 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






41. 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






42. Glue in Italy






43. 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






44. Pottery






45. 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






46. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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






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







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