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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






2. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






4. 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






5. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






6. Fire and then cooking






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






8. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert






9. 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






10. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






11. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






13. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






14. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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. Shelter construction






17. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






18. Shelter construction






19. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.






20. 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






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






22. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)






23. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






25. 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.






26. Pottery






27. 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






28. Glue in Italy






29. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






30. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






31. Cloth woven from flax fiber






32. Eyeglasses in Italy






33. 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






34. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently






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






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






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38. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






39. Flute in Germany






40. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






41. 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






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






43. 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.






44. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






45. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic






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






47. Glue in Italy






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






49. 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






50. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283