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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






2. Burial






3. 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.






4. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






6. Pottery






7. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)






8. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






10. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






11. 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






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






13. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






15. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






16. Cloth woven from flax fiber






17. 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






18. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






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






21. 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






22. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






23. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






24. Fire and then cooking






25. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






26. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






27. 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.






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






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






30. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






33. 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






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






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






36. Shelter construction






37. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






39. Pottery






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






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






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






43. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






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






46. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






47. 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






48. 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.






49. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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