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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






2. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






3. Noria in Roman Empire






4. 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






5. 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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






11. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






13. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. Pigments in Zambia






21. Flute in Germany






22. 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






23. Flute in Germany






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






25. 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






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27. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






28. 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






29. 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






30. Noria in Roman Empire






31. Shelter construction






32. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






33. Pigments in Zambia






34. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






36. Bow






37. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






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






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






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






42. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece






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






44. Pottery






45. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






46. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






47. Fire and then cooking






48. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






49. 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.






50. 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