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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






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






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






4. Fire and then cooking






5. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






7. Spears in Germany






8. Pottery






9. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






11. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.






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






13. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






15. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






16. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.






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






18. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






20. 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.






21. Shelter construction






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






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24. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






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






28. Bow






29. 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






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






31. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






32. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






34. 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






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






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






37. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






38. 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






39. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






40. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






41. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. Friction Match - John Walker






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






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






48. 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






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






50. Lateen sail in Roman Empire