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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






12. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






13. 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






14. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






15. 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






16. 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.






17. Bow






18. Eyeglasses in Italy






19. 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






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. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






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






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






25. 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






26. 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.






27. Flute in Germany






28. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






30. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






31. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






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






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






35. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






36. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






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






39. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






40. 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






41. Pottery






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






43. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






44. 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






45. Fire and then cooking






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47. Pottery






48. 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






49. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)






50. Pigments in Zambia