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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






2. 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






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






4. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






5. Glue in Italy






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






7. 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.






8. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






10. 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






11. Glue in Italy






12. 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






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






14. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






15. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






16. Pigments in Zambia






17. Pottery






18. Noria in Roman Empire






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. Shelter construction






21. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






23. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)






24. 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






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






26. Fire and then cooking






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






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






29. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






30. 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






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






32. 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.






33. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






34. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






35. Twisted rope






36. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






38. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






40. 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






41. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






42. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






44. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






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






47. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






48. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






49. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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