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






3. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






4. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






5. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






6. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






8. Twisted rope






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






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






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






12. Twisted rope






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






14. 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






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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. Eyeglasses in Italy






20. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






22. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






23. Shelter construction






24. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






25. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






26. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






28. 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.






29. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






30. Crane in Ancient Greece






31. 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






32. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






34. 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






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






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






37. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






39. 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






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






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






42. Glue in Italy






43. Numerical zero in Ancient India - The concept of zero as a number - and not merely a symbol for separation is attributed toIndia. In India - practical calculations were carried out using zero - which was treated like any other number by the 9th centu






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






50. 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.