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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






2. 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






3. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






4. 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






5. Spears in Germany






6. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






8. 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.






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






10. Fire and then cooking






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Bow






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






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. 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






22. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






23. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






24. Fire and then cooking






25. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






26. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






27. Crane in Ancient Greece






28. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






29. Noria in Roman Empire






30. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






31. 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






32. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






33. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






34. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






35. Spears in Germany






36. 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.






37. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






38. Pottery






39. 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






40. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






41. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






42. 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






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






44. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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