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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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






2. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






4. Crane in Ancient Greece






5. Twisted rope






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






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






8. Noria in Roman Empire






9. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






10. 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.






11. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






12. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






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15. Twisted rope






16. Eyeglasses in Italy






17. 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






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






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. Burial






23. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






25. Fire and then cooking






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






27. 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






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






29. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






31. 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.






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






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34. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






35. 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






36. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






37. Spears in Germany






38. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






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






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






42. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






43. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






44. 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






45. 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






46. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






48. Shelter construction






49. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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