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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Fire and then cooking






2. 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






3. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






5. Bow






6. Twisted rope






7. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






9. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






10. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






11. Pottery






12. 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






13. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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. Twisted rope






16. 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






17. Eyeglasses in Italy






18. Crane in Ancient Greece






19. Burial






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






21. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280






22. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






24. 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






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






26. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






27. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






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






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






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






32. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






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






35. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






37. 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






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






39. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






41. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






42. Friction Match - John Walker






43. 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






44. 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






45. Pigments in Zambia






46. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






47. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily






48. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






49. 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






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