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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Shelter construction






2. Flute in Germany






3. 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






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






5. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






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






8. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






10. 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.






11. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






12. 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.






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






14. 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






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






16. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






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. 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.






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






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






25. Glue in Italy






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






27. 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.






28. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






29. Fire and then cooking






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






31. 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






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






33. Fire and then cooking






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






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






36. Twisted rope






37. S






38. Bow






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






40. 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.






41. Eyeglasses in Italy






42. Cloth woven from flax fiber






43. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy