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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1802
3rd c. BC
5th/6th c.
c. 480 BC
2. 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
2nd c. BC
1877
16 ka
5th c. BC
3. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
1560
1878
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd
4. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
5th c. BC
1804
9th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
5. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
16 ka
2nd c. BC
After 205 BC
1.8 million years ago
6. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1877
1878
1804
1560
7. 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
5th/6th c.
1712
1822
c. 515 BC
8. 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
563
1286
1560
672
9. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1st c. BC
Before 421 BC
9th c.
5th c. BC
10. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1286
1119
11. 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.
1560
60 ka
After 205 BC
1995
12. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1878
December 20 - 1951
35 ka
408
13. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1st
1st c.
14th c.
14. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
1st
14th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
1470s
15. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
1282
5th c. BC
1985
2nd
16. Fire and then cooking
1.8 million years ago
1958-59
1494
1985
17. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
408
1915
1282
3rd c. BC
18. 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
Late 3rd
16 ka
500 thousand years ago (ka)
9th c.
19. 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.
1439
1822
1709
14th c.
20. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
2nd
1560
Early 3rd c. BC
1286
21. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1712
1st c. BC
35 ka
c. 515 BC
22. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1733
Ca. 300
1958-59
Early 3rd c. BC
23. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1804
563
Late 3rd
1712
24. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Ca. 300
1878
9th c.
Late 3rd
25. Burial
1733
1804
160
1st c. BC
26. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1958-59
9th c.
2nd c. BC
672
27. Fire and then cooking
408
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
7th c.
1.8 million years ago
28. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1st c. BC
c. 480 BC
1826
1990
29. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1804
1712
1878
c. 515 BC
30. 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
1985
c. 240 BC
400 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
31. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
Early 3rd c. BC
1480s
1995
4th
32. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1801
35 ka
1712
563
33. 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
3rd c. BC
1822
672
1995
34. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
Late 3rd
36 ka
2nd c. BC
1915
35. Burial
160
1958-59
672
1st c. BC
36. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
9th c.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1801
1560
37. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1804
7th c.
1822
1st c.
38. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
4th
December 20 - 1951
1733
2nd c. BC
39. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
3rd c. BC
1888
563
1282
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.
1878
4th
160
1439
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
400 ka
1717
1915
1286
42. Pottery
1st c.
400 ka
36 ka
16 ka
43. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1804
1605
1878
Early 3rd c. BC
44. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
3rd c. BC
After 205 BC
Late 3rd
45. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
1st c.
200 ka
2nd c. BC
1995
46. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
Late 3rd c.
672
1470s
Early 3rd c. BC
47. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1480s
Late 3rd
1709
5th/6th c.
48. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1804
4th
5th c. BC
5th c. BC
49. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
Early 3rd c. BC
1286
After 205 BC
Late 3rd
50. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
200 ka
Late 3rd
1800-01
1764