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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Shelter construction






2. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






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






5. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






6. Fire and then cooking






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






8. 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






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






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11. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






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






14. 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






15. 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.






16. Twisted rope






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






18. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






19. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






20. 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






21. 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






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






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






24. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






29. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






30. 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.






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






32. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






33. Burial






34. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






36. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






37. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






38. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






39. 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






40. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






41. Burial






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






43. 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






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






45. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






46. 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.






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






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






49. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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