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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Fire and then cooking






2. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






3. 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






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






5. 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






6. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






8. Fire and then cooking






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. 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.






13. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






15. 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.






16. 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






17. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






18. Spears in Germany






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






20. Spears in Germany






21. Friction Match - John Walker






22. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






23. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






25. Pottery






26. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






27. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






29. Cloth woven from flax fiber






30. Bow






31. Twisted rope






32. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






33. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






34. Bow






35. 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






36. 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.






37. Cloth woven from flax fiber






38. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






39. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






40. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






41. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






42. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






43. Crane in Ancient Greece






44. Burial






45. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






46. 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






47. 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.






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






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






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