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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






2. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






4. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






6. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






7. Crane in Ancient Greece






8. Pottery






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






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






11. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






12. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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. Shelter construction






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






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






17. Friction Match - John Walker






18. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






20. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






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






23. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






25. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






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






28. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






29. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






30. Noria in Roman Empire






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






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






33. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






34. Pottery






35. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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.






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






38. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






39. Pigments in Zambia






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






41. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






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






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






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






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.






47. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






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






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