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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1st c. BC
1420s
1.8 million years ago
5th c. BC
2. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1605
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1286
1742
3. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
c. 515 BC
1826
2nd c.
60 ka
4. 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
1st c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
December 20 - 1951
1822
5. Pottery
16 ka
1764
408
1088
6. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1480s
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
Before 421 BC
400 ka
7. 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.
1804
1.8 million years ago
1470s
1878
8. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
4th
2nd c. BC
1915
1420s
9. 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.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1480s
9th c.
1878
10. Noria in Roman Empire
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
Ca. 300
1822
400 ka
11. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
60 ka
1888
1420s
Late 3rd c.
12. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
2nd c.
After 205 BC
160
1439
13. 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.
c. 515 BC
1439
Late 3rd
7th c.
14. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
Early 3rd c. BC
160
1.8 million years ago
1494
15. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Late 3rd
3rd c. BC
1990
408
16. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
5th c. BC
1958-59
c. 480 BC
1494
17. Banknote in Tang Dynasty China - The banknote was first developed in China during the Tang and Song dynasties - starting in the 7th century. Its roots were in merchant receipts of deposit during the Tang Dynasty (618
7th c.
1712
28 ka
1.8 million years ago
18. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
2nd c. BC
36 ka
1st c. BC
1439
19. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
408
1712
1717
1088
20. Shelter construction
5th/6th c.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
28 ka
400 ka
21. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1742
14th c.
4th
Late 3rd c.
22. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1877
1717
Early 3rd c. BC
160
23. Crane in Ancient Greece
1764
400 ka
c. 515 BC
2nd c. BC
24. 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
1605
5th c. BC
2nd
After 205 BC
25. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1286
1958-59
7th c.
9th c.
26. Bow
1802
60 ka
1088
1494
27. 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
2nd c. BC
1990
9th c.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
28. 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
3rd c. BC
1282
1119
1985
29. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1712
1822
1439
1764
30. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
28 ka
1878
1958-59
1802
31. Fire and then cooking
35 ka
1.8 million years ago
Before 421 BC
16 ka
32. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
1804
408
2nd c. BC
1282
33. Pigments in Zambia
2nd
1915
400 ka
After 205 BC
34. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1804
563
1877
1470s
35. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
1804
December 20 - 1951
9th c.
3rd c. BC
36. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
December 20 - 1951
37. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1888
1494
2nd c. BC
2nd c. BC
38. Pigments in Zambia
1878
1742
400 ka
1877
39. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
2nd c. BC
1088
408
1800-01
40. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
Late 3rd c.
35 ka
c. 480 BC
1826
41. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1804
4th
c. 515 BC
1764
42. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1800-01
1802
1st c. BC
5th/6th c.
43. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
1717
5th c. BC
c. 240 BC
1985
44. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
2nd c. BC
1826
Before 421 BC
Late 3rd c.
45. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
9th c.
672
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1560
46. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
1878
1712
1801
47. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
563
35 ka
1804
48. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
c. 515 BC
1470s
1878
9th c.
49. 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
1802
9th c.
1742
1977
50. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1801
1977
1605
Early 3rd c. BC