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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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






2. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. Shelter construction






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






9. Spears in Germany






10. Pottery






11. 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






12. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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






17. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






18. Flute in Germany






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






20. 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






21. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






22. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






23. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






24. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






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






27. 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






28. Friction Match - John Walker






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






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






31. Fire and then cooking






32. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






33. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






35. Pigments in Zambia






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






37. 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.






38. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






39. 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






40. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






41. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






43. Noria in Roman Empire






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






45. 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.






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






48. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






49. 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






50. Twisted rope