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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






3. 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






4. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






6. Crane in Ancient Greece






7. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






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






10. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






13. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






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






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






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






18. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






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






21. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






22. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






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






25. Twisted rope






26. Friction Match - John Walker






27. Pottery






28. 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






29. Cast iron in Ancient China - Confirmed by archaeological evidence - the earliest cast iron was developed in China by the early 5th century BC during the Zhou Dynasty (1122






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






31. Eyeglasses in Italy






32. Crane in Ancient Greece






33. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






34. 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






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






36. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






37. Friction Match - John Walker






38. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






39. 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






40. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






41. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






43. Burial






44. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






45. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






46. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






47. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






49. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283






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