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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Burial






3. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






4. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






6. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






7. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






8. Eyeglasses in Italy






9. Crane in Ancient Greece






10. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






11. Pigments in Zambia






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






13. 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






14. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






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






17. Fire and then cooking






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






19. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






20. 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.






21. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






22. 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






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






24. 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






25. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






26. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






28. 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






29. 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






30. Bow






31. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






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






35. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






36. Burial






37. 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






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






39. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






40. 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






41. S






42. Noria in Roman Empire






43. Shelter construction






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






45. Glue in Italy






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






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






48. Friction Match - John Walker






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






50. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221