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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






2. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






4. Glue in Italy






5. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






6. 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






7. Twisted rope






8. Flute in Germany






9. Eyeglasses in Italy






10. Pottery






11. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






13. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






15. Bow






16. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






17. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






18. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






19. 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






20. Friction Match - John Walker






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






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






23. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






25. Crane in Ancient Greece






26. Pigments in Zambia






27. Fire and then cooking






28. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






31. S






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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






38. 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






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






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






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






42. 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






43. 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






44. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






45. Wind power in an open air stream is thus proportional to the third power of the wind speed; the available power increases eightfold when the wind speed doubles. Wind turbines for grid electricity therefore need to be especially efficient at greater w






46. 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






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






48. Friction Match - John Walker






49. 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






50. Fire and then cooking