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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1804
c. 515 BC
563
35 ka
2. Fire and then cooking
1.8 million years ago
7th c.
9th c.
672
3. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1804
2nd
5th c. BC
5th c. BC
4. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1733
1985
1494
400 ka
5. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1915
December 20 - 1951
400 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
6. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
200 ka
1915
1888
1st
7. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
7th c.
1286
2nd c.
Late 3rd
8. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1.8 million years ago
60 ka
1st c.
2nd c.
9. 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
1470s
1733
1822
1717
10. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
160
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
9th c.
11. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
1709
9th c.
c. 480 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
12. Pigments in Zambia
2nd c. BC
400 ka
5th c. BC
1st c. BC
13. Twisted rope
200 ka
1888
1286
28 ka
14. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
1st
Early 3rd c. BC
1420s
2nd c. BC
15. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
160
563
5th c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
16. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1742
1560
1877
1st c. BC
17. 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
Ca. 300
7th c.
1878
1742
18. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
Late 3rd
1878
1915
563
19. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
14th c.
After 205 BC
1826
Before 421 BC
20. S
1733
Late 3rd c.
7th c.
1717
21. Friction Match - John Walker
1733
1804
1420s
1826
22. 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
2nd c. BC
2nd
14th c.
1888
23. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1878
c. 515 BC
200 ka
24. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
563
1480s
c. 240 BC
1764
25. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1804
7th c.
1420s
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
26. 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
1119
9th c.
5th/6th c.
1826
27. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
672
408
1878
1958-59
28. 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
1605
1088
Before 421 BC
29. S
1420s
1494
1119
1717
30. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
7th c.
1439
36 ka
1st c. BC
31. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
5th c. BC
1877
1985
1st c.
32. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
c. 240 BC
2nd c. BC
1804
5th/6th c.
33. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
1804
Ca. 300
408
c. 480 BC
34. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
35 ka
1.8 million years ago
1742
Late 3rd c.
35. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1st c. BC
1470s
36 ka
200 ka
36. Cloth woven from flax fiber
563
1888
36 ka
3rd c. BC
37. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1439
1560
1977
1st c. BC
38. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
500 thousand years ago (ka)
5th/6th c.
1480s
1605
39. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1st
c. 480 BC
1420s
1877
40. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1282
1977
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1560
41. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1282
1764
4th
1878
42. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
1494
Ca. 300
1709
2nd c. BC
43. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
400 ka
1742
Early 3rd c. BC
1709
44. 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
1420s
36 ka
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
45. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
1605
Early 3rd c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
2nd
46. 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
9th c.
1439
563
1802
47. 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
1877
9th c.
1990
1119
48. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
c. 480 BC
1560
1470s
1494
49. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1802
1709
1st
1st c. BC
50. Burial
35 ka
160
1088
35 ka