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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. 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
5th c. BC
Late 3rd
c. 515 BC
9th c.
2. Noria in Roman Empire
Ca. 300
1764
1958-59
1st c. BC
3. 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
1995
5th c. BC
1985
1119
4. Friction Match - John Walker
1826
1800-01
1420s
9th c.
5. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
5th c. BC
1286
2nd c. BC
2nd
6. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1742
Late 3rd
Late 3rd c.
1804
7. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
1286
14th c.
4th
After 205 BC
8. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
2nd c.
35 ka
2nd
1733
9. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
1119
5th c. BC
2nd c. BC
10. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
2nd c.
36 ka
c. 480 BC
1st
11. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1826
1st c. BC
2nd c. BC
1717
12. Twisted rope
28 ka
1800-01
1822
1605
13. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
4th
1915
1480s
3rd c. BC
14. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1804
5th/6th c.
1st
1888
15. Spears in Germany
1286
1878
Before 421 BC
400 ka
16. 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
1709
4th
9th c.
408
17. 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
9th c.
2nd c. BC
1888
Early 3rd c. BC
18. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1802
9th c.
1995
1480s
19. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
4th
160
400 ka
20. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1742
1282
672
1990
21. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1804
1958-59
1764
22. 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
16 ka
5th c. BC
672
1286
23. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
400 ka
4th
Late 3rd c.
1878
24. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
Late 3rd
1439
1733
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
25. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
1.8 million years ago
28 ka
408
1st c. BC
26. Glue in Italy
1888
400 ka
200 ka
1282
27. 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.
5th c. BC
2nd c. BC
1st c. BC
1995
28. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
60 ka
400 ka
1990
1801
29. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1420s
1977
1712
408
30. Crane in Ancient Greece
1560
1439
c. 515 BC
7th c.
31. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
16 ka
3rd c. BC
1801
563
32. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
200 ka
1st c. BC
160
2nd c. BC
33. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1709
1888
1733
1605
34. 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.
1878
December 20 - 1951
1439
1995
35. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
28 ka
Before 421 BC
1717
200 ka
36. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
1804
1995
5th c. BC
37. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
After 205 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1802
4th
38. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1800-01
1st
1709
1480s
39. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
1.8 million years ago
Early 3rd c. BC
3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
40. S
1717
1119
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
3rd c. BC
41. 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
1985
28 ka
1286
160
42. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
c. 480 BC
1420s
1119
36 ka
43. Glue in Italy
200 ka
1822
1282
1990
44. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1480s
Early 3rd c. BC
1878
1560
45. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1977
4th
1712
2nd c.
46. 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
1088
1915
1801
c. 240 BC
47. Flute in Germany
400 ka
35 ka
14th c.
1605
48. 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
60 ka
1712
1119
1709
49. 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.
14th c.
1470s
1439
400 ka
50. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1822
563
1804
1420s