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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Glue in Italy






2. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






3. Bow






4. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






5. 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






6. Flute in Germany






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






8. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






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






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. 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






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






19. 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.






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






21. Eyeglasses in Italy






22. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






24. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






25. Noria in Roman Empire






26. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






27. Crane in Ancient Greece






28. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






30. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






31. 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






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






33. 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






34. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






35. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






36. 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






37. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






38. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






39. Bow






40. 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






41. 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.






42. 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






43. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






45. Shelter construction






46. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






47. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






49. Eyeglasses in Italy






50. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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