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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
Late 3rd c.
2nd c. BC
3rd c. BC
1877
2. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
c. 480 BC
4th
408
200 ka
3. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
1439
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1.8 million years ago
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
4. 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
9th c.
7th c.
1822
16 ka
5. Flute in Germany
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
35 ka
1119
6. Burial
1804
1995
2nd c. BC
160
7. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
After 205 BC
1st
1764
1878
8. Pigments in Zambia
Before 421 BC
1764
400 ka
672
9. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1st c.
Early 3rd c. BC
1958-59
1712
10. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
14th c.
3rd c. BC
400 ka
1282
11. Noria in Roman Empire
7th c.
1958-59
Ca. 300
1420s
12. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1826
3rd c. BC
1804
1822
13. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
Late 3rd c.
1804
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1470s
14. 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
1605
1764
1990
Late 3rd
15. 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
1119
1494
36 ka
5th c. BC
16. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
2nd c. BC
December 20 - 1951
1877
1878
17. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
December 20 - 1951
1958-59
36 ka
1709
18. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
1286
c. 480 BC
19. 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
Early 3rd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1826
9th c.
20. Friction Match - John Walker
Ca. 300
1826
7th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
21. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
2nd c. BC
c. 515 BC
1st c.
1877
22. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1420s
2nd c. BC
1878
400 ka
23. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
35 ka
1480s
2nd c. BC
14th c.
24. 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
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
2nd c. BC
1985
1822
25. 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
1286
Late 3rd
1822
9th c.
26. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
408
5th/6th c.
400 ka
27. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
408
1878
1494
1712
28. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
1826
1605
3rd c. BC
1088
29. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1977
c. 240 BC
c. 480 BC
1802
30. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1494
1282
1985
1733
31. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
5th c. BC
1733
1878
1742
32. Glue in Italy
200 ka
7th c.
1119
After 205 BC
33. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1480s
1801
1470s
1826
34. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1877
1878
After 205 BC
1.8 million years ago
35. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1877
1282
2nd c.
7th c.
36. Crane in Ancient Greece
1958-59
c. 515 BC
1878
1st c.
37. 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.
2nd c.
28 ka
1995
1878
38. 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
1605
1826
After 205 BC
1985
39. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
1.8 million years ago
1915
200 ka
2nd c. BC
40. 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
1494
1119
7th c.
1888
41. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
Early 3rd c. BC
December 20 - 1951
1286
After 205 BC
42. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
35 ka
14th c.
5th c. BC
43. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
14th c.
1995
200 ka
c. 480 BC
44. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
1915
408
1800-01
35 ka
45. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1804
1st c. BC
1800-01
1709
46. S
1560
1717
408
1801
47. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
After 205 BC
1709
1733
1560
48. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1119
60 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
400 ka
49. Eyeglasses in Italy
1286
c. 515 BC
9th c.
1804
50. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
1733
5th c. BC
1420s
December 20 - 1951