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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Shelter construction






3. Spears in Germany






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






5. 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






6. Flute in Germany






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






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






9. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






11. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






12. Pigments in Zambia






13. 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.






14. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






15. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






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






18. Eyeglasses in Italy






19. Glue in Italy






20. Flute in Germany






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






22. 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.






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






24. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






25. Twisted rope






26. Cloth woven from flax fiber






27. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard






28. 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






29. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






30. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






31. 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






32. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






33. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






34. Bow






35. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






36. 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






37. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






38. 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






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






40. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






42. Noria in Roman Empire






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






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






45. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






46. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






48. Pigments in Zambia






49. Burial






50. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather