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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
60 ka
4th
1717
2. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
4th
408
2nd c. BC
672
3. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
After 205 BC
1800-01
7th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
4. Spears in Germany
200 ka
400 ka
1420s
2nd c. BC
5. Flute in Germany
400 ka
1560
35 ka
1804
6. Flute in Germany
1709
35 ka
c. 240 BC
1958-59
7. 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.
1742
1878
1995
35 ka
8. 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
9th c.
Late 3rd
35 ka
5th c. BC
9. 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
Late 3rd
Early 3rd c. BC
7th c.
1st c. BC
10. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1605
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
Late 3rd c.
60 ka
11. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1494
60 ka
1801
1888
12. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
2nd c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
c. 240 BC
Ca. 300
13. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
Late 3rd
5th c. BC
December 20 - 1951
c. 240 BC
14. S
1717
1878
1742
9th c.
15. 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
2nd
7th c.
5th c. BC
1742
16. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
200 ka
672
1878
1480s
17. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
Late 3rd c.
1560
1420s
1.8 million years ago
18. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1494
1877
1977
2nd c. BC
19. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1985
1764
36 ka
Late 3rd
20. Shelter construction
500 thousand years ago (ka)
200 ka
1764
1712
21. Pottery
4th
1712
16 ka
c. 515 BC
22. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
36 ka
1878
December 20 - 1951
2nd c. BC
23. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
1709
1958-59
Early 3rd c. BC
1958-59
24. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
5th c. BC
1977
28 ka
1st c. BC
25. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1286
35 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
1480s
26. Crane in Ancient Greece
c. 515 BC
36 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
27. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1802
1878
1088
1494
28. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
c. 240 BC
Late 3rd
1995
29. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1878
Late 3rd c.
2nd
1282
30. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
35 ka
5th/6th c.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1119
31. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
2nd c. BC
1st c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
Late 3rd
32. Noria in Roman Empire
Ca. 300
1st c. BC
c. 240 BC
Late 3rd
33. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1826
1st c. BC
Before 421 BC
400 ka
34. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1804
28 ka
1958-59
1985
35. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
400 ka
5th c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1480s
36. Burial
5th/6th c.
160
1915
60 ka
37. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
Before 421 BC
9th c.
1st c. BC
1742
38. Fire and then cooking
Early 3rd c. BC
1764
1.8 million years ago
5th c. BC
39. 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
1977
9th c.
Before 421 BC
1915
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
1990
1560
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1494
41. Pigments in Zambia
c. 240 BC
400 ka
200 ka
408
42. 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.
1878
1439
Late 3rd c.
35 ka
43. 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.
Early 3rd c. BC
1804
1709
5th c. BC
44. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1286
1480s
1286
2nd c. BC
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
1439
Late 3rd
After 205 BC
9th c.
46. Glue in Italy
9th c.
9th c.
1717
200 ka
47. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
1286
c. 240 BC
1494
16 ka
48. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1802
1480s
60 ka
1804
49. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
1826
36 ka
28 ka
50. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
Ca. 300
2nd c.
1st
1470s