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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Fire and then cooking






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






6. 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






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






8. 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.






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. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






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






13. 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






14. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






15. Glue in Italy






16. 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






17. 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






18. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






19. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






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






22. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






23. 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






24. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






25. Bow






26. Friction Match - John Walker






27. Friction Match - John Walker






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






29. 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






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






31. 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.






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






33. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






34. 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.






35. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






36. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






37. 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.






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






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






40. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






42. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






44. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






46. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






47. Eyeglasses in Italy






48. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






50. Flute in Germany