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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Fire and then cooking






2. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






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






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






6. S






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






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






9. Flute in Germany






10. Bow






11. 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






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






13. Noria in Roman Empire






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. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






16. Glue in Italy






17. 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.






18. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






19. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






20. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






22. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






23. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






24. Cloth woven from flax fiber






25. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






26. 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.






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






28. Glue in Italy






29. Flute in Germany






30. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






31. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire






32. Eyeglasses in Italy






33. Crossbow in Ancient China and Ancient Greece - In Ancient China - the earliest evidence of bronze crossbow bolts dates as early as mid-5th century BC in Yutaishan - Hubei.In Ancient Greece - the terminus ante quem of the gastraphetes is 421 BC.






34. Pigments in Zambia






35. Bow






36. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






38. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






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






42. 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






43. Shelter construction






44. Pottery






45. 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.






46. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)






47. 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.






48. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






49. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






50. Burial