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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






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






3. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






4. 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






5. Friction Match - John Walker






6. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






7. Noria in Roman Empire






8. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






10. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






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






14. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






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






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






22. Fire and then cooking






23. Twisted rope






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






25. 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






26. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






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






29. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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.






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






35. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






37. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






38. 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.






39. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






41. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






43. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






45. 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






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






48. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






49. 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






50. Glue in Italy