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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






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






3. Flute in Germany






4. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






5. Burial






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






7. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






8. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






10. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






12. Fire and then cooking






13. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






15. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






17. Eyeglasses in Italy






18. Spears in Germany






19. Glue in Italy






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






21. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






23. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






25. Cloth woven from flax fiber






26. Spears in Germany






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






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






29. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






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






32. Pigments in Zambia






33. Pigments in Zambia






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.






35. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






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






38. Crane in Ancient Greece






39. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






40. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






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






43. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






44. Noria in Roman Empire






45. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






46. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






47. Shelter construction






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






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






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