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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. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






3. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






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






6. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






8. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






9. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






10. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






11. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






13. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






15. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






22. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






23. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






25. 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






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






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






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






29. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






30. 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






31. Twisted rope






32. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






33. 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.






34. Shelter construction






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






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






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






38. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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. Pigments in Zambia






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






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






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






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






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






46. Spears in Germany






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






48. 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






49. Eyeglasses in Italy






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