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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)
1st c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c. BC
1802
2. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
1801
3rd c. BC
1282
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
1804
1877
1088
Ca. 300
4. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
1822
Early 3rd c. BC
Late 3rd
1st c.
5. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1088
Early 3rd c. BC
6. Crane in Ancient Greece
408
2nd c. BC
1877
c. 515 BC
7. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
36 ka
1717
1733
Before 421 BC
8. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1.8 million years ago
1801
1st c. BC
1802
9. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1712
2nd c.
1958-59
Late 3rd c.
10. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
1st c. BC
9th c.
1802
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
11. S
2nd c. BC
7th c.
1717
36 ka
12. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1st c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1990
7th c.
13. Cloth woven from flax fiber
36 ka
5th c. BC
1439
1480s
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
Late 3rd c.
1494
1804
1470s
15. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
36 ka
9th c.
1.8 million years ago
16. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
Late 3rd c.
14th c.
1804
c. 480 BC
17. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1712
1119
1742
1958-59
18. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1804
1733
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
19. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1494
672
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
7th c.
20. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1119
1800-01
1801
3rd c. BC
21. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
14th c.
408
2nd c. BC
2nd
22. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1717
1826
2nd c. BC
1977
23. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1st c. BC
1st c.
Ca. 300
1470s
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
1804
36 ka
36 ka
1985
25. Twisted rope
1878
672
2nd c.
28 ka
26. Friction Match - John Walker
200 ka
2nd c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1826
27. Pottery
Late 3rd c.
16 ka
5th c. BC
1800-01
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
1470s
1822
1560
672
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
5th c. BC
1977
1560
1764
30. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1826
9th c.
1800-01
1801
31. Eyeglasses in Italy
1286
1801
2nd c. BC
14th c.
32. Crane in Ancient Greece
c. 515 BC
1560
1877
c. 480 BC
33. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
400 ka
1494
Before 421 BC
1560
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
1560
1088
1286
1st
35. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1995
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
60 ka
1605
36. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1420s
1764
1804
408
37. Friction Match - John Walker
1826
1888
1st c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
38. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1877
1282
Before 421 BC
1st c.
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
1st c. BC
1119
500 thousand years ago (ka)
Early 3rd c. BC
40. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1764
1560
Late 3rd
1st c. BC
41. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
2nd c. BC
Before 421 BC
1888
1712
42. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1822
563
2nd c. BC
1804
43. Burial
160
1800-01
1088
60 ka
44. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1877
1560
408
1st c. BC
45. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1480s
563
1st c. BC
1742
46. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
563
1802
14th c.
16 ka
47. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
2nd
1st c. BC
1742
14th c.
48. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
1733
Late 3rd c.
1st c.
5th/6th c.
49. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
1470s
1420s
Early 3rd c. BC
1888
50. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
2nd
1990
1709
1804