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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Shelter construction






3. Bow






4. 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






5. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






7. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






8. Crane in Ancient Greece






9. 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






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






11. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC






12. Burial






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






14. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






15. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






16. Pottery






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






18. Glue in Italy






19. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






20. Greek fire in Constantinople - Byzantine Empire- Greek fire - an incendiary weapon likely based on petroleum or naphtha - was invented by Kallinikos - a Greek refugee to Constantinople - as described by Theophanes. However - the historicity and exact






21. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






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






25. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






27. Twisted rope






28. 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






29. Friction Match - John Walker






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






31. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






32. 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






33. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






34. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






36. 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.






37. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






38. Friction Match - John Walker






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






40. Noria in Roman Empire






41. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






42. A CD-ROM (an acronym of 'Compact Disc Read-only memory') is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to - but not writable by - a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985






43. 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






44. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






45. 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






46. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






47. Fire and then cooking






48. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






49. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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