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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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






2. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






4. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






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






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






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






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






10. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






12. 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






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






14. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






22. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






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






25. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






26. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






28. Cloth woven from flax fiber






29. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






31. Noria in Roman Empire






32. Noria in Roman Empire






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






34. 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.






35. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






36. 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






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






38. 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.






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






40. Glue in Italy






41. 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






42. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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44. 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






45. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






47. Burial






48. Twisted rope






49. 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.






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