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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. 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






3. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






4. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






5. Eyeglasses in Italy






6. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily






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






8. 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






9. S






10. Shelter construction






11. Flute in Germany






12. Numerical zero in Ancient India - The concept of zero as a number - and not merely a symbol for separation is attributed toIndia. In India - practical calculations were carried out using zero - which was treated like any other number by the 9th centu






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






14. 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






15. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






16. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






17. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






19. Burial






20. 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.






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






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






23. Cloth woven from flax fiber






24. Bow






25. 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.






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






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






28. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






29. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






30. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






31. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






33. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






34. Crane in Ancient Greece






35. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






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






38. 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






39. Twisted rope






40. 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






41. Fire and then cooking






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






43. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






44. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






46. 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






47. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






48. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






49. Pigments in Zambia






50. Cloth woven from flax fiber