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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






3. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






4. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






5. Cloth woven from flax fiber






6. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






7. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






8. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






9. 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






10. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






11. 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






12. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






14. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






15. 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.






16. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






18. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






19. Flute in Germany






20. 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






21. 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.






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






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. Shelter construction






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






28. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






29. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






30. Pigments in Zambia






31. 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.






32. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






34. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






36. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






37. Flute in Germany






38. 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






39. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






40. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






41. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






42. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire






43. Pottery






44. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






45. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






46. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)






47. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






48. 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






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50. Noria in Roman Empire