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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. 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






3. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






4. 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.






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






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






7. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






8. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






10. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






11. 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






12. 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.






13. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






14. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






15. Pottery






16. Pigments in Zambia






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






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






19. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






21. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






22. Flute in Germany






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






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






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26. Eyeglasses in Italy






27. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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. Crane in Ancient Greece






30. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






31. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






33. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






34. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






36. Glue in Italy






37. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






38. 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






39. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






41. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






43. Spears in Germany






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






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






46. 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






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






48. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






50. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy