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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






3. Spears in Germany






4. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)






5. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






6. 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






7. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






8. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






9. Glue in Italy






10. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






11. Noria in Roman Empire






12. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






14. Spears in Germany






15. Pottery






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






17. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






20. 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.






21. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






22. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






23. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






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






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






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






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






29. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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. Glue in Italy






32. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






33. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)






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






35. 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.






36. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






37. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






38. 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






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






40. Fire and then cooking






41. 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.






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






43. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






45. Eyeglasses in Italy






46. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






47. 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






48. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






50. 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.