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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Spears in Germany






2. Shelter construction






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






4. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






5. Glue in Italy






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






7. 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.






8. Cloth woven from flax fiber






9. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






10. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






11. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






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






14. Bow






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






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






17. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






18. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






19. 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






20. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






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






23. 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






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25. 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






26. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






27. 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






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






29. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






30. 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






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






39. 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.






40. 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






41. 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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






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






49. 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






50. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece