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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Shelter construction
500 thousand years ago (ka)
Late 3rd
1877
5th c. BC
2. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
2nd c. BC
1st
1494
1709
3. Crane in Ancient Greece
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
3rd c. BC
1605
c. 515 BC
4. 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
1st
1985
December 20 - 1951
1439
5. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
2nd c.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
Early 3rd c. BC
1764
6. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
2nd c.
5th c. BC
1804
563
7. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
4th
16 ka
1958-59
1733
8. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1802
1877
1st c. BC
7th c.
9. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
Before 421 BC
5th c. BC
1605
408
10. 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.
5th c. BC
16 ka
3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
11. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
2nd c.
Late 3rd
1877
1605
12. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
400 ka
1605
7th c.
2nd c. BC
13. 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
1802
1822
3rd c. BC
400 ka
14. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
2nd c. BC
c. 480 BC
2nd c. BC
1709
15. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
4th
Late 3rd c.
2nd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
16. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
1995
400 ka
Late 3rd c.
2nd
17. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1494
4th
1088
Late 3rd c.
18. 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.
1915
1877
1878
1st c.
19. 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
Early 3rd c. BC
672
1801
7th c.
20. Cloth woven from flax fiber
35 ka
7th c.
36 ka
1119
21. 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
December 20 - 1951
400 ka
5th c. BC
1915
22. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
5th c. BC
9th c.
200 ka
1733
23. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
16 ka
1804
1st c. BC
1804
24. 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
1990
1800-01
1712
c. 240 BC
25. Pigments in Zambia
408
Early 3rd c. BC
400 ka
9th c.
26. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
27. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
5th c. BC
1st c. BC
Before 421 BC
4th
28. Crane in Ancient Greece
1826
1286
c. 240 BC
c. 515 BC
29. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1480s
2nd c. BC
1878
400 ka
30. 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.
Early 3rd c. BC
60 ka
5th/6th c.
1439
31. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
c. 240 BC
1888
1st c. BC
28 ka
32. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1494
28 ka
500 thousand years ago (ka)
After 205 BC
33. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
408
5th c. BC
1560
400 ka
34. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
9th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
1878
4th
35. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1801
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
After 205 BC
36. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
1420s
1119
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1470s
37. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
Ca. 300
c. 480 BC
1733
1439
38. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1st c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
28 ka
1733
39. Bow
60 ka
408
1958-59
36 ka
40. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
c. 240 BC
1822
c. 515 BC
1st c. BC
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.
Late 3rd c.
1801
3rd c. BC
1995
42. 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.
3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
1.8 million years ago
1st c. BC
43. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
4th
1822
1888
400 ka
44. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1712
1802
1804
1801
45. Burial
Early 3rd c. BC
160
2nd c.
1st c.
46. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1st
Before 421 BC
1977
1420s
47. Noria in Roman Empire
1470s
2nd c. BC
Ca. 300
1282
48. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
400 ka
1804
36 ka
1742
49. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
5th/6th c.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
2nd c. BC
1878
50. Glue in Italy
1560
1733
200 ka
14th c.