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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. 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






3. 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






4. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






5. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






10. 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






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. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






13. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






14. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






15. Shelter construction






16. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






17. 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






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






19. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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21. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






23. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






24. Flute in Germany






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






26. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






28. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






30. Friction Match - John Walker






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






32. 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






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






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






35. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






36. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






37. Glue in Italy






38. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






39. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






40. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






42. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






43. Shelter construction






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






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






46. 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






47. Movable type in Ancient China - The first record of a movable type system is in the Dream Pool Essays written in 1088 - which attributed the invention of the movable type to Bi Sheng. In the 15th century - Johannes Gutenberg independently invented th






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






49. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






50. Eyeglasses in Italy