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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Crane in Ancient Greece
c. 515 BC
1480s
1877
35 ka
2. 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
1878
9th c.
1420s
1822
3. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Late 3rd
2nd c. BC
1878
1439
4. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1st c. BC
Late 3rd
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1st c.
5. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1712
1st c.
2nd
1804
6. Glue in Italy
200 ka
160
After 205 BC
2nd
7. 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
1282
5th c. BC
1800-01
400 ka
8. Eyeglasses in Italy
5th c. BC
9th c.
1712
1286
9. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
200 ka
1826
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
10. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
200 ka
5th c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1119
11. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
c. 515 BC
After 205 BC
14th c.
5th c. BC
12. 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.
200 ka
1878
c. 515 BC
1977
13. 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
1712
5th c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1977
14. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
672
1878
1286
After 205 BC
15. Pottery
c. 480 BC
1st c.
1878
16 ka
16. 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
3rd c. BC
2nd c.
9th c.
1878
17. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
14th c.
Before 421 BC
Late 3rd c.
1800-01
18. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
2nd
1494
1st
400 ka
19. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
14th c.
2nd c. BC
35 ka
1088
20. Spears in Germany
Ca. 300
400 ka
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
December 20 - 1951
21. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1494
December 20 - 1951
1282
1804
22. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
5th/6th c.
28 ka
1709
1995
23. 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.
1717
1958-59
5th c. BC
1st c. BC
24. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
672
200 ka
1804
408
25. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1742
1286
400 ka
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
26. 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
December 20 - 1951
1712
Early 3rd c. BC
672
27. 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.
1878
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
c. 240 BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
28. Fire and then cooking
3rd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1915
1.8 million years ago
29. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
2nd c.
After 205 BC
1470s
28 ka
30. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1605
c. 240 BC
1st
1420s
31. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1st
1560
1977
Late 3rd c.
32. Burial
7th c.
3rd c. BC
160
672
33. Pottery
1282
4th
1977
16 ka
34. 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
9th c.
1st c. BC
1470s
c. 515 BC
35. 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.
1439
5th/6th c.
1480s
400 ka
36. Flute in Germany
After 205 BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
35 ka
1480s
37. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1088
1st c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1st c.
38. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
563
c. 240 BC
c. 515 BC
1877
39. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1439
Early 3rd c. BC
1709
2nd c.
40. 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
1915
1286
3rd c. BC
1990
41. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
9th c.
1420s
Late 3rd c.
2nd c. BC
42. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1480s
1826
2nd c.
43. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
7th c.
408
1605
1764
44. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1801
1420s
5th/6th c.
36 ka
45. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1985
1712
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
46. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
3rd c. BC
c. 515 BC
3rd c. BC
December 20 - 1951
47. Bow
60 ka
2nd c. BC
9th c.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
48. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1995
1st c. BC
1958-59
1915
49. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1742
1494
563
Ca. 300
50. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1888
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1119
4th