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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. 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






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






4. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






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






7. 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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






16. Fire and then cooking






17. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






18. 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






19. 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.






20. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






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






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






24. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






25. Burial






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






27. Fire and then cooking






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






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






30. 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






31. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






33. 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






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






35. Burial






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






37. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






38. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho






39. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






40. 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.






41. The tank was invented by Ernest Swinton - although the British Royal Commission on Awards recognised a South Australian named Lance de Mole who had submitted a proposal to the British War Office - for a 'chain-rail vehicle which could be easily stee






42. Pottery






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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