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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
1888
9th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c. BC
2. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
400 ka
1286
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
3. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1420s
After 205 BC
1878
1st c. BC
4. Glue in Italy
200 ka
1712
1764
c. 240 BC
5. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
1420s
2nd c. BC
Before 421 BC
6. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1985
1605
4th
7. Eyeglasses in Italy
1286
1958-59
400 ka
1888
8. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1709
1804
9th c.
1494
9. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
1088
1801
2nd c. BC
563
10. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
3rd c. BC
1733
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1802
11. Flute in Germany
35 ka
1804
1822
1119
12. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
2nd c. BC
5th/6th c.
28 ka
14th c.
13. Spears in Germany
Late 3rd c.
1802
400 ka
c. 240 BC
14. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1560
200 ka
1800-01
1st c. BC
15. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1712
1733
December 20 - 1951
35 ka
16. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
5th c. BC
2nd c. BC
5th/6th c.
1st c.
17. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
Late 3rd c.
1712
18. 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
1804
672
200 ka
28 ka
19. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
14th c.
1764
After 205 BC
2nd c.
20. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
Early 3rd c. BC
1877
7th c.
1804
21. Shelter construction
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
1st
500 thousand years ago (ka)
22. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
Late 3rd c.
5th/6th c.
1088
23. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
Early 3rd c. BC
1560
1st c. BC
1286
24. 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
December 20 - 1951
672
1977
1990
25. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1st
672
c. 515 BC
After 205 BC
26. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1878
2nd c. BC
1958-59
1717
27. 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.
1888
2nd c. BC
1439
1st c. BC
28. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
1560
408
16 ka
1800-01
29. Noria in Roman Empire
Before 421 BC
1888
1888
Ca. 300
30. Cloth woven from flax fiber
28 ka
1494
9th c.
36 ka
31. The tank was invented by Ernest Swinton - although the British Royal Commission on Awards recognised a South Australian named Lance de Mole who had submitted a proposal to the British War Office - for a 'chain-rail vehicle which could be easily stee
5th/6th c.
1915
Late 3rd
14th c.
32. Friction Match - John Walker
Early 3rd c. BC
1826
200 ka
400 ka
33. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
672
c. 240 BC
16 ka
1.8 million years ago
34. 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
1709
1560
1st c. BC
672
35. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1826
2nd c. BC
1st c.
Early 3rd c. BC
36. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
3rd c. BC
7th c.
1764
37. Pottery
1494
16 ka
1st
1286
38. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
Early 3rd c. BC
1709
1733
39. Friction Match - John Walker
1826
672
1990
14th c.
40. Pottery
1709
16 ka
200 ka
9th c.
41. Pigments in Zambia
1877
1088
1822
400 ka
42. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
1802
Early 3rd c. BC
1st
60 ka
43. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
2nd c. BC
1480s
5th c. BC
2nd
44. 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
1990
1878
1977
2nd c. BC
45. 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
2nd c. BC
16 ka
1985
1888
46. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1712
563
1st c. BC
1439
47. 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
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
2nd c.
48. 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
160
1605
1st c. BC
1088
49. 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
1958-59
1990
9th c.
1st c.
50. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
1804
1915
2nd c. BC