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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Pottery






2. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






3. Noria in Roman Empire






4. 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






5. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






6. Twisted rope






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






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






9. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






10. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






11. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






13. 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.






14. Twisted rope






15. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






16. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






24. 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.






25. 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






26. 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






27. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






29. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






31. Bow






32. Shelter construction






33. Noria in Roman Empire






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






35. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






36. Pigments in Zambia






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






38. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






39. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






40. 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.






41. 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






42. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






43. 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






44. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






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






47. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






49. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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