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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1915
Late 3rd
4th
1480s
2. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1712
200 ka
2nd c. BC
1802
3. 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
36 ka
1958-59
672
1888
4. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1804
1878
1470s
1804
5. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
672
4th
3rd c. BC
2nd c.
6. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
200 ka
1800-01
c. 240 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
7. 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
1958-59
1915
1985
1977
8. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1494
2nd c. BC
Late 3rd c.
1480s
9. Spears in Germany
400 ka
1826
1560
1958-59
10. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
1742
2nd
1915
9th c.
11. 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.
1st c. BC
14th c.
1995
1709
12. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
36 ka
1977
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1282
13. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
1439
1800-01
1717
14th c.
14. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
After 205 BC
1995
200 ka
7th c.
15. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
1826
1st c. BC
408
1990
16. Cloth woven from flax fiber
36 ka
1420s
1995
1494
17. Bow
60 ka
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1088
Late 3rd
18. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
672
1480s
1822
After 205 BC
19. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
c. 480 BC
1709
200 ka
1826
20. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
9th c.
563
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c.
21. 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
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
Before 421 BC
1088
14th c.
22. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
Early 3rd c. BC
400 ka
1st c. BC
1712
23. 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
400 ka
9th c.
14th c.
1822
24. Eyeglasses in Italy
400 ka
35 ka
1286
200 ka
25. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1.8 million years ago
5th c. BC
200 ka
December 20 - 1951
26. Noria in Roman Empire
1804
1470s
1712
Ca. 300
27. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
December 20 - 1951
16 ka
1995
1733
28. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1764
1764
1709
1st c.
29. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
2nd c. BC
1878
1742
Early 3rd c. BC
30. 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.
200 ka
1958-59
1439
28 ka
31. 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
1801
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1801
32. Flute in Germany
35 ka
1st c. BC
After 205 BC
408
33. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
c. 480 BC
1712
34. Fire and then cooking
c. 515 BC
1.8 million years ago
1st c. BC
2nd c. BC
35. 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
1977
1804
1.8 million years ago
36. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1878
After 205 BC
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
37. 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
1605
1420s
1119
672
38. 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
9th c.
1804
2nd
500 thousand years ago (ka)
39. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
4th
1802
1804
1822
40. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
28 ka
3rd c. BC
1119
60 ka
41. 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.
1712
14th c.
1439
1282
42. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
1712
2nd c. BC
1764
1709
43. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1470s
1878
2nd c.
1995
44. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
1st c. BC
1802
1717
Early 3rd c. BC
45. Fire and then cooking
1990
1733
1.8 million years ago
1470s
46. 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
5th c. BC
1990
1804
1977
47. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
1877
408
1282
48. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
1764
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
2nd c. BC
1977
49. 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.
Ca. 300
c. 515 BC
60 ka
5th c. BC
50. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
28 ka
1560
36 ka
35 ka