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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






3. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






4. Pigments in Zambia






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






6. Fire and then cooking






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






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






9. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






10. Spears in Germany






11. 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






12. 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.






13. Flute in Germany






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






15. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






16. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






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






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






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






21. Cloth woven from flax fiber






22. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






23. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






24. Burial






25. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






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






28. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






29. 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






30. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






31. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






36. Glue in Italy






37. Friction Match - John Walker






38. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






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






41. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






43. 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






44. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






45. Pottery






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






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






48. 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






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






50. 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







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