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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Pottery
1420s
14th c.
1286
16 ka
2. Fire and then cooking
1733
Before 421 BC
1801
1.8 million years ago
3. 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
1985
1826
200 ka
1494
4. Pigments in Zambia
400 ka
1st
1826
December 20 - 1951
5. Eyeglasses in Italy
1878
1286
1742
400 ka
6. Pigments in Zambia
1877
2nd
400 ka
1985
7. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
After 205 BC
400 ka
1605
1802
8. 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.
1995
1733
28 ka
c. 480 BC
9. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
2nd c.
1717
5th c. BC
1709
10. S
1717
Early 3rd c. BC
36 ka
December 20 - 1951
11. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1286
1733
563
12. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
14th c.
1804
1470s
c. 515 BC
13. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
160
December 20 - 1951
1990
1801
14. Noria in Roman Empire
4th
1420s
1878
Ca. 300
15. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
December 20 - 1951
c. 240 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
16. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1282
2nd c. BC
400 ka
Ca. 300
17. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
c. 480 BC
5th/6th c.
5th c. BC
5th c. BC
18. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
3rd c. BC
1804
35 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
19. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1st
1878
1439
1st c.
20. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
c. 480 BC
1990
1420s
Early 3rd c. BC
21. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
2nd c.
2nd c. BC
1822
1470s
22. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
563
3rd c. BC
3rd c. BC
1826
23. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
Ca. 300
1st c. BC
1878
5th c. BC
24. Noria in Roman Empire
1709
1888
5th c. BC
Ca. 300
25. Crane in Ancient Greece
1764
c. 480 BC
1712
c. 515 BC
26. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1712
1888
1717
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
27. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
35 ka
1480s
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
563
28. Crane in Ancient Greece
400 ka
1958-59
c. 515 BC
1470s
29. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
1877
3rd c. BC
1st c.
2nd c. BC
30. 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.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1802
1420s
1439
31. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
1.8 million years ago
c. 515 BC
c. 240 BC
36 ka
32. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
4th
1439
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1804
33. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1742
1st c.
7th c.
34. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
200 ka
1439
1877
c. 515 BC
35. Shelter construction
4th
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1088
408
36. Burial
160
1822
1470s
1119
37. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1282
Early 3rd c. BC
1888
3rd c. BC
38. 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
500 thousand years ago (ka)
5th c. BC
1439
672
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
1915
500 thousand years ago (ka)
c. 515 BC
After 205 BC
40. The electric light bulb was first patented in England by 1878 by Joseph Swan after having experimented since about 1850. Thomas Edison in the U.S. was working on improving the bulb patented by Swan and was granted a U.S. patent in 1879.
16 ka
400 ka
1878
4th
41. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
Late 3rd c.
1990
4th
672
42. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
Late 3rd
1958-59
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
200 ka
43. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
5th c. BC
1995
4th
1420s
44. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
1286
1801
1480s
45. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
672
Late 3rd
1800-01
c. 480 BC
46. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1733
1717
1712
2nd
47. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
9th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
1878
48. Burial
160
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1st
Ca. 300
49. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
1878
408
Late 3rd
Early 3rd c. BC
50. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
5th c. BC
1977
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
2nd c. BC