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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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






2. 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






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






4. Pottery






5. Cloth woven from flax fiber






6. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






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. 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.






10. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






11. Flute in Germany






12. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






13. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






14. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






15. Noria in Roman Empire






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






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






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






19. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






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






22. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






23. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






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






26. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






28. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






29. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






30. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






31. 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






32. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






33. 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






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






35. Shelter construction






36. 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






37. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






38. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






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






41. Pottery






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. Twisted rope






46. Twisted rope






47. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






48. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






50. Fire and then cooking