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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






2. 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






3. 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






4. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






5. Pottery






6. 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






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






8. Pottery






9. 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






10. Eyeglasses in Italy






11. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






12. 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






13. Noria in Roman Empire






14. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






15. 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.






16. Cloth woven from flax fiber






17. 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






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






19. Noria in Roman Empire






20. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






21. 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






22. 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.






23. Cloth woven from flax fiber






24. 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.






25. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






26. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






27. 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






28. 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






29. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






31. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






32. Twisted rope






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






34. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






35. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






36. 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






37. 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






38. Glue in Italy






39. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho






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






42. 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.






43. Shelter construction






44. 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






45. Fire and then cooking






46. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






47. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






48. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






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