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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. 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
2nd c. BC
1742
5th c. BC
1977
2. Crane in Ancient Greece
5th c. BC
c. 515 BC
672
2nd
3. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
4th
1802
2nd c. BC
1088
4. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
408
60 ka
c. 480 BC
2nd c.
5. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
4th
1st c.
36 ka
500 thousand years ago (ka)
6. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
563
Ca. 300
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
16 ka
7. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1st c. BC
1915
1995
1439
8. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
9th c.
1480s
7th c.
1802
9. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
500 thousand years ago (ka)
14th c.
2nd c. BC
December 20 - 1951
10. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1877
1733
1985
1878
11. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1804
5th/6th c.
1878
400 ka
12. 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
9th c.
200 ka
1470s
2nd c. BC
13. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
Late 3rd c.
14th c.
36 ka
14. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
4th
1733
400 ka
1977
15. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
400 ka
1822
Early 3rd c. BC
Before 421 BC
16. 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
1717
2nd
1088
1742
17. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1st c. BC
400 ka
5th/6th c.
563
18. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1286
4th
2nd c.
1282
19. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
Early 3rd c. BC
1st
160
400 ka
20. 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.
1888
1878
400 ka
1119
21. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
5th c. BC
1709
1888
After 205 BC
22. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1985
1560
672
1st
23. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
400 ka
563
Late 3rd
c. 480 BC
24. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1742
1420s
1958-59
25. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1878
672
1st c.
1282
26. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
2nd
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1877
1420s
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
1709
After 205 BC
1804
160
28. Cloth woven from flax fiber
2nd c. BC
36 ka
1804
1985
29. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1494
1st
5th c. BC
1.8 million years ago
30. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
1480s
Early 3rd c. BC
1.8 million years ago
1995
31. Noria in Roman Empire
1822
Late 3rd
1802
Ca. 300
32. Noria in Roman Empire
60 ka
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
9th c.
Ca. 300
33. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1286
2nd c.
1733
1804
34. 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.
5th/6th c.
2nd c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1439
35. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1888
16 ka
After 205 BC
December 20 - 1951
36. 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
60 ka
5th c. BC
1st c. BC
1119
37. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
408
1990
1804
1958-59
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.
5th/6th c.
1742
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
39. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
1470s
2nd c. BC
4th
3rd c. BC
40. Glue in Italy
Late 3rd
408
1480s
200 ka
41. 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
9th c.
672
1st c. BC
c. 515 BC
42. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1802
2nd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1286
43. S
2nd c.
1439
1717
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
44. 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
672
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1st c.
December 20 - 1951
45. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1977
1958-59
1480s
1st c. BC
46. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1119
1st c. BC
1605
28 ka
47. Burial
35 ka
160
1420s
7th c.
48. Twisted rope
28 ka
1st
9th c.
1802
49. 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.
28 ka
408
1995
1958-59
50. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
4th
Late 3rd c.
563
1802