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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






2. 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






3. 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.






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






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






6. Banknote in Tang Dynasty China - The banknote was first developed in China during the Tang and Song dynasties - starting in the 7th century. Its roots were in merchant receipts of deposit during the Tang Dynasty (618






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






8. Spears in Germany






9. 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






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






11. Spears in Germany






12. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






15. 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






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






17. Fire and then cooking






18. 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






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






20. Cloth woven from flax fiber






21. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






23. Shelter construction






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






28. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






29. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






30. Noria in Roman Empire






31. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






32. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






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






38. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






39. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






40. Pottery






41. Bow






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






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






44. Burial






45. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






46. 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






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






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






49. 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






50. Eyeglasses in Italy