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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Spears in Germany






3. Burial






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






5. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






6. Friction Match - John Walker






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






11. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






12. 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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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






21. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






23. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






24. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






25. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






26. Burial






27. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






28. Glue in Italy






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






30. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






31. 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






32. Fire and then cooking






33. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






34. Crane in Ancient Greece






35. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






37. Twisted rope






38. 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






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






40. Bow






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






42. Spears in Germany






43. Friction Match - John Walker






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






45. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






47. Twisted rope






48. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






49. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






50. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X