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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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






2. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






4. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






5. Crane in Ancient Greece






6. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.






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






8. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






9. 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






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






11. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






12. DVD is an optical disc storage format - invented and developed by Philips - Sony - Toshiba - and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.






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






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






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






16. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






17. 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






18. Pottery






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






20. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






22. 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






23. Burial






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






25. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






26. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






28. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






29. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






30. 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






31. 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.






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






33. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






34. Spears in Germany






35. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






36. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






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






39. 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






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






41. 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.






42. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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. Cloth woven from flax fiber






45. Friction Match - John Walker






46. Shelter construction






47. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






48. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






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