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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Bow






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






3. 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






4. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






6. 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.






7. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






8. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






9. Friction Match - John Walker






10. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire






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






12. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






13. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






14. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.






15. 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






16. Twisted rope






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. 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






19. 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






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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






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






25. Cloth woven from flax fiber






26. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






27. 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






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






29. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






30. Bow






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






32. Eyeglasses in Italy






33. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






34. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






35. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire






36. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






37. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






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






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






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






42. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






43. 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






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






45. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






46. Pottery






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






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. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






50. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli