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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Flute in Germany






2. Spears in Germany






3. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






5. 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






6. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






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






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






11. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






12. Pigments in Zambia






13. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






14. Burial






15. Fire and then cooking






16. 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






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






19. Burial






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






21. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






22. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






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






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






26. Pigments in Zambia






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






28. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






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31. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






32. 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






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






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






35. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)






36. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






37. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






38. 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.






39. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






41. 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






42. 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






43. Cloth woven from flax fiber






44. 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






45. 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.






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






47. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






48. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280






49. 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






50. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire