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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






2. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






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






5. 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






6. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






7. 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






8. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






9. 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






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






11. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece






12. Friction Match - John Walker






13. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






19. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






20. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






21. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






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






24. Fire and then cooking






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






26. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






27. 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






28. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






29. Twisted rope






30. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.






31. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






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






34. Burial






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






36. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






37. Spears in Germany






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






39. Pottery






40. Flute in Germany






41. 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






42. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






44. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






47. 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






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






49. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.






50. 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.