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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1958-59
1822
9th c.
2nd c. BC
2. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
1480s
1801
Before 421 BC
3. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1804
1990
1st
200 ka
4. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1877
1494
2nd c.
5. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1420s
December 20 - 1951
36 ka
1286
6. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
5th c. BC
1878
5th/6th c.
408
7. 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
1420s
Ca. 300
1822
2nd c.
8. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
1286
1st c.
7th c.
9. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
9th c.
Late 3rd
1480s
14th c.
10. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1.8 million years ago
672
1st c.
1560
11. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
400 ka
2nd c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1878
12. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1605
1915
c. 515 BC
1802
13. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
2nd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1439
1st c.
14. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1282
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1605
1878
15. 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
1822
500 thousand years ago (ka)
5th c. BC
1119
16. 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.
1804
Before 421 BC
1439
1480s
17. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
1286
2nd c. BC
3rd c. BC
c. 480 BC
18. Bow
408
60 ka
Before 421 BC
5th c. BC
19. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
1605
5th c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1st c.
20. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
5th c. BC
1st
1470s
1878
21. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
7th c.
1888
408
5th/6th c.
22. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
Before 421 BC
1st c. BC
14th c.
5th/6th c.
23. 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
35 ka
1888
672
2nd
24. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1494
4th
60 ka
Late 3rd c.
25. 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.
1282
1977
36 ka
1995
26. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1119
28 ka
2nd c. BC
1804
27. Fire and then cooking
1.8 million years ago
1st
1915
1286
28. Burial
Before 421 BC
160
1439
1995
29. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1712
1877
1088
1709
30. Friction Match - John Walker
500 thousand years ago (ka)
7th c.
1826
Early 3rd c. BC
31. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
c. 480 BC
1494
1878
400 ka
32. Spears in Germany
400 ka
1826
672
60 ka
33. 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
1822
Before 421 BC
1709
1801
34. Spears in Germany
1420s
1717
400 ka
1888
35. Crane in Ancient Greece
c. 515 BC
1742
1439
1878
36. 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
1877
9th c.
1985
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
37. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c.
1878
38. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Late 3rd
7th c.
c. 515 BC
5th c. BC
39. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
1804
c. 240 BC
28 ka
40. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
5th c. BC
400 ka
5th/6th c.
Late 3rd c.
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.
5th c. BC
400 ka
1985
1st
42. 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
1985
Ca. 300
1119
1800-01
43. Twisted rope
1985
28 ka
200 ka
7th c.
44. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1804
9th c.
1712
1439
45. S
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
Before 421 BC
1717
1915
46. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
1st c. BC
Before 421 BC
5th/6th c.
c. 240 BC
47. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
1st c.
1420s
16 ka
c. 240 BC
48. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
2nd c.
Before 421 BC
1804
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
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.
1439
1717
16 ka
1st
50. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1822
1560
4th
36 ka