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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Glue in Italy






3. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






4. 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.






5. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






7. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






8. 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.






9. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert






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






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






12. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






14. Burial






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






16. 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






17. 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.






18. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






19. Shelter construction






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






21. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






23. Pigments in Zambia






24. Fire and then cooking






25. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






27. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






28. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






29. 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






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






31. Cloth woven from flax fiber






32. Crane in Ancient Greece






33. 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






34. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






35. Pottery






36. Twisted rope






37. 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






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






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






40. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






42. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






43. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






45. Shelter construction






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






47. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.






48. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






49. 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






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