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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Cloth woven from flax fiber






2. 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.






3. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






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






7. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






8. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






9. 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






10. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






11. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






12. 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






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






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






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






16. 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






17. 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






18. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






28. Pottery






29. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






30. Flute in Germany






31. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






32. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






33. Cloth woven from flax fiber






34. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






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






37. 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






38. 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






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






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






41. Friction Match - John Walker






42. Friction Match - John Walker






43. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






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






46. Noria in Roman Empire






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






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






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






50. 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