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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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






2. Fire and then cooking






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






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






5. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






6. 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






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






8. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






10. Bow






11. 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






12. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






13. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






14. 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.






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






16. Noria in Roman Empire






17. Shelter construction






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






19. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






21. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






22. 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






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






24. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






25. 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






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






27. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






29. 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.






30. 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






31. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






33. 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






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






35. Pottery






36. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






37. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






38. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






40. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






41. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






42. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






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






46. Glue in Italy






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






50. 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