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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Burial






2. Twisted rope






3. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






5. 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






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






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






8. Glue in Italy






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






10. 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






11. 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.






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






13. 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






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






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






16. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






17. Fire and then cooking






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






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






20. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






22. Bow






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






24. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






25. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






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






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






29. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






30. Noria in Roman Empire






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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






37. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






38. 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






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40. Spears in Germany






41. 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






42. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






43. 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






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






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






46. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






47. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






49. Flute in Germany






50. Spears in Germany