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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Shelter construction
2nd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
160
1878
2nd c.
1804
3. Flute in Germany
1470s
35 ka
1977
2nd c. BC
4. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1995
December 20 - 1951
1480s
2nd c. BC
5. Spears in Germany
2nd
400 ka
672
2nd
6. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
December 20 - 1951
16 ka
408
400 ka
7. 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
500 thousand years ago (ka)
5th/6th c.
1560
7th c.
8. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
c. 480 BC
1802
14th c.
5th c. BC
9. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
9th c.
60 ka
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
c. 240 BC
10. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
Early 3rd c. BC
1742
1977
1801
11. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
c. 480 BC
1709
1877
1494
12. 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
1801
1977
1800-01
1764
13. 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
60 ka
1990
1733
4th
14. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1709
1439
35 ka
1.8 million years ago
15. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
5th c. BC
4th
1712
c. 515 BC
16. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
1915
1.8 million years ago
28 ka
2nd c. BC
17. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1733
1995
1878
200 ka
18. Eyeglasses in Italy
1286
1804
5th c. BC
1878
19. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
200 ka
2nd c. BC
4th
2nd c.
20. Fire and then cooking
16 ka
1.8 million years ago
1877
1605
21. Pottery
16 ka
1915
1878
5th c. BC
22. 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
1888
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1995
1822
23. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
1801
563
14th c.
1494
24. 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
563
9th c.
1st
1801
25. Pigments in Zambia
1764
400 ka
1878
1742
26. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
5th c. BC
1804
1888
408
27. Fire and then cooking
5th c. BC
16 ka
1.8 million years ago
400 ka
28. 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.
1878
Late 3rd
1480s
c. 480 BC
29. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1st c. BC
1.8 million years ago
Before 421 BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
30. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
2nd c. BC
563
2nd
2nd c. BC
31. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1733
36 ka
1st c.
200 ka
32. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
5th c. BC
c. 240 BC
60 ka
1st c.
33. 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
1420s
1888
1990
28 ka
34. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
After 205 BC
1822
1439
2nd
35. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1990
1712
1605
1470s
36. 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
Before 421 BC
1977
5th c. BC
1439
37. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
1888
500 thousand years ago (ka)
5th c. BC
December 20 - 1951
38. 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.
1878
1877
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
5th c. BC
39. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
Ca. 300
1985
5th/6th c.
1877
40. Twisted rope
14th c.
28 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
c. 515 BC
41. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
5th c. BC
1119
4th
1915
42. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
1733
1764
1877
c. 480 BC
43. 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.
1712
60 ka
1439
1119
44. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
Early 3rd c. BC
1878
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1470s
45. 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
1915
Late 3rd
1st
After 205 BC
46. 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
1470s
1439
9th c.
1717
47. Eyeglasses in Italy
408
1800-01
1286
1494
48. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
35 ka
9th c.
Late 3rd c.
28 ka
49. Cloth woven from flax fiber
4th
36 ka
1733
1878
50. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1st c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
4th
14th c.