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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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






2. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






8. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






9. Noria in Roman Empire






10. Bow






11. 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.






12. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






14. Fire and then cooking






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






16. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






18. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






20. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






21. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.






22. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






23. 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






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






25. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






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






28. Friction Match - John Walker






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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






34. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






35. Crane in Ancient Greece






36. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






38. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






41. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






43. 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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






49. Flute in Germany






50. 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