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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






2. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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4. 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.






5. Spears in Germany






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






7. Glue in Italy






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






9. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






11. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






12. Twisted rope






13. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






14. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






15. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






17. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






24. Burial






25. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






26. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






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






29. Glue in Italy






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






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






32. Pigments in Zambia






33. 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






34. 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






35. 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






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






37. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






39. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






40. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






41. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






43. 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






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






45. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






46. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






47. 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






48. 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






49. 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.






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