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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1439
1494
4th
2. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
5th/6th c.
1286
1801
3. Flute in Germany
5th c. BC
1800-01
Early 3rd c. BC
35 ka
4. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
1420s
1804
5th c. BC
5. Burial
160
c. 515 BC
1804
1712
6. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1494
9th c.
1995
1st c. BC
7. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
35 ka
5th c. BC
1985
14th c.
8. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1802
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1888
9. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
563
400 ka
1804
c. 240 BC
10. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
400 ka
Before 421 BC
1742
1764
11. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1st c. BC
Late 3rd c.
1878
1.8 million years ago
12. Fire and then cooking
1.8 million years ago
36 ka
408
400 ka
13. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
2nd c. BC
1990
200 ka
After 205 BC
14. 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
Before 421 BC
5th/6th c.
672
2nd c. BC
15. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1888
7th c.
1709
1420s
16. The tank was invented by Ernest Swinton - although the British Royal Commission on Awards recognised a South Australian named Lance de Mole who had submitted a proposal to the British War Office - for a 'chain-rail vehicle which could be easily stee
Ca. 300
1286
1915
36 ka
17. Eyeglasses in Italy
1286
1990
c. 515 BC
1717
18. Spears in Germany
1.8 million years ago
Ca. 300
2nd c.
400 ka
19. Glue in Italy
2nd c. BC
2nd c. BC
1888
200 ka
20. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1801
1800-01
December 20 - 1951
Ca. 300
21. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
1888
1822
Late 3rd
2nd c. BC
22. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
5th c. BC
1494
16 ka
1800-01
23. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
c. 515 BC
2nd c.
1764
1088
24. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
c. 515 BC
1712
1088
Early 3rd c. BC
25. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1494
60 ka
1st c. BC
36 ka
26. Spears in Germany
2nd c. BC
1764
1888
400 ka
27. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1470s
1826
1st c. BC
c. 480 BC
28. 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
1282
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
14th c.
29. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
14th c.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1742
9th c.
30. 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
1804
563
1977
672
31. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
Late 3rd c.
Ca. 300
5th/6th c.
2nd
32. Pigments in Zambia
1st c.
400 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
1439
33. Pigments in Zambia
60 ka
400 ka
1826
1st c. BC
34. 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.
1995
1801
5th c. BC
1804
35. Crane in Ancient Greece
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
4th
1605
c. 515 BC
36. 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
1822
2nd c.
1878
1st c. BC
37. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
1439
400 ka
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd c. BC
38. Crane in Ancient Greece
1286
2nd c. BC
c. 480 BC
c. 515 BC
39. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1804
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1888
2nd c. BC
40. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
1286
36 ka
1420s
408
41. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
1915
Late 3rd c.
1439
1822
42. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
2nd c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1st
1764
43. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1560
1282
1764
2nd c.
44. Noria in Roman Empire
Ca. 300
December 20 - 1951
1480s
5th c. BC
45. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
563
2nd c. BC
28 ka
1764
46. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
1888
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
400 ka
47. Shelter construction
1878
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd c. BC
16 ka
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
1985
400 ka
1990
2nd c.
49. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
5th c. BC
2nd
1605
5th/6th c.
50. 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
9th c.
5th c. BC
Late 3rd
2nd c. BC