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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Burial






2. Crane in Ancient Greece






3. Glue in Italy






4. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






5. 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.






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






7. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






9. 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






10. 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






11. Bow






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






13. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






15. 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






16. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






17. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






19. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather






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






21. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






22. Pottery






23. 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.






24. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280






25. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






26. S






27. 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.






28. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.






29. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






30. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






31. Eyeglasses in Italy






32. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






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






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






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






37. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






38. Glue in Italy






39. 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






40. 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






41. Shelter construction






42. Friction Match - John Walker






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






44. 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.






45. Pigments in Zambia






46. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






47. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






48. 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






49. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






50. Twisted rope