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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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






2. Shelter construction






3. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






5. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






7. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






8. 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






9. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






11. 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.






12. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






14. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






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






17. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






18. 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






19. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






21. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






23. 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.






24. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






26. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






28. Twisted rope






29. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






30. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






31. Pigments in Zambia






32. Pottery






33. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






34. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






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






37. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. Bow






43. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






45. 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






46. 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






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






48. 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






49. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






50. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt