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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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.






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






3. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






4. Pigments in Zambia






5. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






6. Pottery






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






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






9. Burial






10. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






12. Flute in Germany






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






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






15. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






16. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






17. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






19. 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






20. 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






21. 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






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






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






24. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






25. Glue in Italy






26. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






27. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






29. Fire and then cooking






30. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






33. 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






34. Spears in Germany






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






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






37. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






38. Spears in Germany






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






40. Bow






41. 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






42. Twisted rope






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






44. Shelter construction






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






46. Shelter construction






47. 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.






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






49. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






50. 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







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