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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






4. 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.






5. Spears in Germany






6. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






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






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






10. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






11. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






12. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






13. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






14. 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






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






16. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






18. Eyeglasses in Italy






19. Crane in Ancient Greece






20. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






21. 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.






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






27. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






28. Bow






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






30. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






31. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






33. 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






34. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






36. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






38. Fire and then cooking






39. A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or customized computer system that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device (a television - monitor - etc.) to display a video game. The term 'video game con






40. Burial






41. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.






42. Pigments in Zambia






43. 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.






44. 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






45. Friction Match - John Walker






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






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






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






49. Twisted rope






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