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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
563
16 ka
400 ka
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
2. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c. BC
35 ka
1st
3. 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
1717
28 ka
1995
1915
4. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1088
7th c.
16 ka
1282
5. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1801
1712
Early 3rd c. BC
1742
6. 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
c. 480 BC
1915
1712
1088
7. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
14th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
1480s
8. Eyeglasses in Italy
1801
1286
5th c. BC
1990
9. 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
1990
7th c.
1439
After 205 BC
10. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1420s
1st c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
Ca. 300
11. Spears in Germany
400 ka
1977
1709
1800-01
12. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
400 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
1480s
1439
13. 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.
Late 3rd c.
5th c. BC
1494
1605
14. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1605
1712
16 ka
1470s
15. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
60 ka
2nd c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
c. 515 BC
16. Crane in Ancient Greece
2nd c. BC
c. 515 BC
1990
9th c.
17. 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
1888
2nd c.
1286
1119
18. 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
1985
1717
1826
1st c. BC
19. 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.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
28 ka
1826
1439
20. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1990
36 ka
Ca. 300
Early 3rd c. BC
21. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
7th c.
1985
1494
22. 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
1977
1st c.
36 ka
28 ka
23. 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
7th c.
1480s
160
672
24. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
2nd c. BC
1480s
Early 3rd c. BC
1286
25. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
Late 3rd
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1733
1470s
26. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1420s
Late 3rd c.
408
1st
27. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
5th/6th c.
1st
28 ka
200 ka
28. 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.
1990
1802
1878
Early 3rd c. BC
29. 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
1286
7th c.
9th c.
1119
30. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
5th c. BC
1282
1801
Early 3rd c. BC
31. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
4th
1480s
2nd c. BC
1878
32. Pigments in Zambia
Before 421 BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
Ca. 300
400 ka
33. 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
1995
1709
9th c.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
34. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1878
1088
1088
35. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
1878
5th c. BC
1995
36. Flute in Germany
1822
35 ka
5th c. BC
408
37. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
160
1494
1712
1282
38. 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
1888
5th c. BC
36 ka
1712
39. Burial
1717
160
Late 3rd c.
1088
40. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
3rd c. BC
1st c.
1470s
9th c.
41. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
1717
14th c.
16 ka
1480s
42. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
1st c. BC
1605
Early 3rd c. BC
14th c.
43. 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
14th c.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1764
1822
44. 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
1878
1804
1801
1990
45. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1826
5th c. BC
400 ka
563
46. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
5th/6th c.
1915
5th c. BC
47. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
2nd
1088
2nd c.
5th c. BC
48. Pigments in Zambia
5th c. BC
5th c. BC
400 ka
1826
49. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
200 ka
1282
1742
4th
50. 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
1605
1480s
1822
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)