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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. S
2nd c. BC
9th c.
1717
5th c. BC
2. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1282
1958-59
Early 3rd c. BC
1.8 million years ago
3. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1878
1802
1717
4. Spears in Germany
c. 240 BC
1282
400 ka
1st c. BC
5. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
5th c. BC
1977
1494
Ca. 300
6. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1800-01
5th/6th c.
2nd c. BC
7. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
December 20 - 1951
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
8. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
5th/6th c.
1st
1800-01
500 thousand years ago (ka)
9. 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
2nd c.
5th c. BC
1712
1470s
10. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1717
28 ka
1801
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.
Early 3rd c. BC
16 ka
1995
1286
12. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
Early 3rd c. BC
1709
1990
1985
13. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
563
35 ka
1494
Late 3rd
14. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
Ca. 300
1888
Before 421 BC
563
15. 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
1st c. BC
1977
7th c.
1985
16. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1494
4th
408
After 205 BC
17. Fire and then cooking
1.8 million years ago
1742
After 205 BC
1977
18. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1282
5th c. BC
1709
1878
19. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1.8 million years ago
c. 480 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
20. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
c. 240 BC
1826
Before 421 BC
14th c.
21. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
c. 480 BC
2nd c. BC
35 ka
22. Pigments in Zambia
672
408
563
400 ka
23. 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.
1439
160
1826
1.8 million years ago
24. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1st c. BC
2nd c. BC
December 20 - 1951
1995
25. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
December 20 - 1951
36 ka
1826
2nd c. BC
26. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
4th
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd
1st c.
27. Twisted rope
2nd c. BC
14th c.
28 ka
160
28. S
1717
1888
4th
Early 3rd c. BC
29. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
2nd c. BC
1st c. BC
672
16 ka
30. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1st c. BC
Before 421 BC
1712
Early 3rd c. BC
31. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
Late 3rd c.
36 ka
3rd c. BC
c. 240 BC
32. 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
c. 515 BC
1764
1088
9th c.
33. 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
36 ka
1st c. BC
1877
5th c. BC
34. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
4th
1st
Early 3rd c. BC
1802
35. 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
1st
1119
1878
1878
36. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1800-01
1717
Late 3rd
After 205 BC
37. Pigments in Zambia
3rd c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1119
400 ka
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
After 205 BC
1801
9th c.
Late 3rd c.
39. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
3rd c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1712
Early 3rd c. BC
40. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
408
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1st c. BC
1733
41. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1605
1709
1733
35 ka
42. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
4th
1822
1958-59
1.8 million years ago
43. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1494
36 ka
9th c.
1st c. BC
44. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1712
1088
1560
1742
45. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1804
5th/6th c.
1878
1915
46. 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.
1801
1439
60 ka
c. 515 BC
47. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
563
c. 480 BC
1804
408
48. Burial
3rd c. BC
563
1st c. BC
160
49. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
2nd
4th
36 ka
1480s
50. Crane in Ancient Greece
c. 515 BC
1977
1605
1282