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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






2. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






4. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






5. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






6. Cloth woven from flax fiber






7. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






8. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






10. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






11. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






12. Twisted rope






13. Bow






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






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






16. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






17. Glue in Italy






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






19. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






21. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






23. Twisted rope






24. 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.






25. 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






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






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






28. Pigments in Zambia






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






30. Spears in Germany






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






32. 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






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






34. Bow






35. Fire and then cooking






36. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






37. 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.






38. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






39. 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






40. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






42. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






46. 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






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






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






49. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






50. Fire and then cooking