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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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






2. 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.






3. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






4. 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






5. Cloth woven from flax fiber






6. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






7. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






8. Flute in Germany






9. 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






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






11. 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.






12. 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






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






14. 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






15. Flute in Germany






16. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






17. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






18. 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






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






20. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






21. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






22. Burial






23. 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






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






25. 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.






26. 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






27. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






29. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






30. Pigments in Zambia






31. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






32. Cloth woven from flax fiber






33. 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






34. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






35. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






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






38. Pigments in Zambia






39. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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41. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






42. 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






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






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






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






47. Noria in Roman Empire






48. 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.






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






50. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire