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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






2. Pigments in Zambia






3. Glue in Italy






4. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






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






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






8. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






10. 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






11. Bow






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






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






14. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.






15. Bow






16. Shelter construction






17. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






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. Fire and then cooking






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






22. Pottery






23. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






25. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






26. Fire and then cooking






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






28. 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






29. Cloth woven from flax fiber






30. 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






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






32. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






34. Eyeglasses in Italy






35. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






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






38. Twisted rope






39. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






40. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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. 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






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






44. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire






45. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire






46. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.






47. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






48. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






49. 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






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







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