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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Shelter construction






2. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






3. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






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






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






7. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






8. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






9. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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.






11. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






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






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






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






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






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.






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






20. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






22. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






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






25. Pigments in Zambia






26. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






27. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






28. Crane in Ancient Greece






29. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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.






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






32. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






33. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






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






36. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






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






39. Bow






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






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. 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.






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






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






45. Burial






46. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






47. Noria in Roman Empire






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






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






50. Glue in Italy