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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Bow
1801
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1742
60 ka
2. 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
3rd c. BC
1995
7th c.
5th c. BC
3. Burial
1822
160
Before 421 BC
1st c. BC
4. Glue in Italy
408
2nd c. BC
1282
200 ka
5. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1088
1804
563
1877
6. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1712
5th c. BC
c. 480 BC
1st c. BC
7. Crane in Ancient Greece
c. 515 BC
Late 3rd
4th
1985
8. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
December 20 - 1951
1420s
1709
1888
9. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
December 20 - 1951
1712
672
Late 3rd
10. Fire and then cooking
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
400 ka
1.8 million years ago
1709
11. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
408
672
1977
Early 3rd c. BC
12. Bow
2nd
60 ka
5th/6th c.
1470s
13. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
c. 240 BC
1560
1801
1088
14. Noria in Roman Empire
2nd c. BC
Ca. 300
1.8 million years ago
9th c.
15. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
672
1877
2nd c.
16. Spears in Germany
1560
c. 515 BC
1764
400 ka
17. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
35 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
1470s
1119
18. 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
1958-59
1733
200 ka
1977
19. 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
Ca. 300
1088
5th/6th c.
1977
20. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
After 205 BC
1282
1480s
160
21. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1985
2nd c. BC
4th
28 ka
22. Eyeglasses in Italy
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1709
1286
4th
23. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
1717
14th c.
28 ka
400 ka
24. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
2nd c.
1470s
408
1282
25. Friction Match - John Walker
Ca. 300
1119
1826
408
26. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
5th/6th c.
35 ka
1st
1733
27. 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
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
1990
1826
28. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
Early 3rd c. BC
1995
1733
1804
29. Fire and then cooking
c. 240 BC
1119
1.8 million years ago
1712
30. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
1709
14th c.
1822
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
31. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
Late 3rd c.
2nd c. BC
Late 3rd c.
7th c.
32. 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
1985
Early 3rd c. BC
Before 421 BC
1709
33. 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
200 ka
7th c.
35 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
34. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
Late 3rd
c. 515 BC
1439
1420s
35. 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
After 205 BC
9th c.
28 ka
1st c. BC
36. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1286
2nd c. BC
1712
1st c. BC
37. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
2nd
5th c. BC
60 ka
400 ka
38. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
c. 240 BC
9th c.
1712
160
39. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
After 205 BC
1st c.
2nd c. BC
1985
40. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1st
2nd
1822
5th/6th c.
41. 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
1958-59
1985
1990
1282
42. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1802
2nd c. BC
1st c.
5th c. BC
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.
400 ka
1990
1878
1709
44. 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
400 ka
672
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1420s
45. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1878
16 ka
1733
1977
46. 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.
1995
1801
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1560
47. 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
1420s
1915
1286
1804
48. Twisted rope
28 ka
1915
1470s
1560
49. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
5th/6th c.
1878
400 ka
50. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
1560
Early 3rd c. BC
c. 480 BC
1494
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