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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Twisted rope






3. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






5. Pigments in Zambia






6. 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






7. Pottery






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






9. 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






10. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






11. Flute in Germany






12. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






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






15. Friction Match - John Walker






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. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire






18. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






20. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC






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






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






23. 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






24. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






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






27. 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






28. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily






29. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






31. 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






32. Fire and then cooking






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






34. 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






35. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






37. Eyeglasses in Italy






38. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






40. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






41. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






43. Flute in Germany






44. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






45. Twisted rope






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






47. 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.






48. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283






49. 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






50. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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