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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






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






5. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)






6. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






7. Cloth woven from flax fiber






8. Spears in Germany






9. 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






10. Fire and then cooking






11. 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






12. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






13. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






14. 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.






15. 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






16. 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






17. Burial






18. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






19. 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






20. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)






21. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






22. 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






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






24. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)






25. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






26. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire






27. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






28. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283






29. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






30. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






31. Pigments in Zambia






32. 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






33. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






35. 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.






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






37. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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39. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






40. 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






41. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






43. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






45. Shelter construction






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






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






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






49. 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






50. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC