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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic






2. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






3. 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






4. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






5. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic






6. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






7. 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






8. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






9. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






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






12. 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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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






17. Burial






18. Noria in Roman Empire






19. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






21. Bow






22. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






24. Pigments in Zambia






25. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






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






28. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






29. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently






30. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






32. Flute in Germany






33. World Wide Web by a British national in Geneva - Switzerland - The World Wide Web was first proposed on March 1989 by English engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee - now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium. The project was pub






34. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






35. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






37. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






39. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






40. 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.






41. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






43. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






45. Twisted rope






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






47. Glue in Italy






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






49. Movable type in Ancient China - The first record of a movable type system is in the Dream Pool Essays written in 1088 - which attributed the invention of the movable type to Bi Sheng. In the 15th century - Johannes Gutenberg independently invented th






50. Flute in Germany