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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1826
2. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
408
1494
1st c. BC
Before 421 BC
3. S
35 ka
2nd c. BC
400 ka
1717
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.
5th c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1439
1995
5. Spears in Germany
16 ka
400 ka
1826
1605
6. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
563
1733
c. 515 BC
60 ka
7. Glue in Italy
200 ka
2nd c. BC
1878
36 ka
8. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1717
1801
60 ka
14th c.
9. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1439
1800-01
1877
1709
10. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1877
2nd c.
1st
1712
11. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
Early 3rd c. BC
1470s
1977
12. Twisted rope
28 ka
408
1494
Early 3rd c. BC
13. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
2nd c.
1494
28 ka
1st
14. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
7th c.
1877
1915
1804
15. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Late 3rd
1st
1st c.
28 ka
16. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1877
1605
2nd c. BC
1958-59
17. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
160
7th c.
5th/6th c.
14th c.
18. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
9th c.
1282
1480s
2nd c. BC
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.
1119
1480s
1995
1st c. BC
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
1877
5th c. BC
1709
1804
21. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1494
200 ka
1494
December 20 - 1951
22. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1439
1742
After 205 BC
1st c.
23. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
36 ka
2nd c. BC
1802
500 thousand years ago (ka)
24. Burial
1804
1804
14th c.
160
25. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1st c.
1420s
1494
1480s
26. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1822
1990
After 205 BC
December 20 - 1951
27. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1282
672
1990
5th/6th c.
28. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
2nd c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
Early 3rd c. BC
1480s
29. Glue in Italy
1878
14th c.
1439
200 ka
30. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
2nd
c. 480 BC
1990
1286
31. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
1717
7th c.
1282
2nd c. BC
32. Pigments in Zambia
14th c.
1119
1st c. BC
400 ka
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
1st
1977
1878
c. 515 BC
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
3rd c. BC
672
2nd c.
1915
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
1990
1822
16 ka
1877
36. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
9th c.
c. 240 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c.
37. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
1712
c. 515 BC
408
5th c. BC
38. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
After 205 BC
1717
2nd c. BC
1802
39. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1st
1119
1822
2nd c.
40. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
400 ka
1800-01
563
1470s
41. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1764
9th c.
c. 240 BC
60 ka
42. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1st c. BC
Late 3rd c.
1915
1480s
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
1605
7th c.
3rd c. BC
1717
44. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
2nd c.
4th
35 ka
45. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
c. 515 BC
1494
1742
1480s
46. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
400 ka
35 ka
9th c.
1420s
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
1826
1878
1800-01
1888
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
1800-01
1119
35 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
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.
1804
5th/6th c.
1420s
5th c. BC
50. S
2nd c. BC
2nd c. BC
1717
December 20 - 1951