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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1470s
1877
2nd
1804
2. 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
16 ka
5th c. BC
1800-01
9th c.
3. 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
1st c. BC
9th c.
5th c. BC
563
4. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
After 205 BC
c. 240 BC
1733
1877
5. Pottery
After 205 BC
1282
16 ka
1804
6. 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
1985
160
36 ka
2nd
7. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1764
9th c.
1977
4th
8. Pottery
1878
Late 3rd c.
1st
16 ka
9. 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
1822
36 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
672
10. Eyeglasses in Italy
1286
1822
3rd c. BC
1990
11. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
2nd
1480s
1439
5th c. BC
12. 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
35 ka
400 ka
1826
9th c.
13. Noria in Roman Empire
Ca. 300
Early 3rd c. BC
1915
200 ka
14. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
400 ka
1470s
7th c.
1878
15. 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.
9th c.
1995
1804
1826
16. Cloth woven from flax fiber
9th c.
36 ka
1480s
4th
17. 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
1742
1.8 million years ago
1605
1822
18. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
c. 240 BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
5th c. BC
December 20 - 1951
19. Noria in Roman Empire
1804
5th c. BC
Ca. 300
Early 3rd c. BC
20. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1286
Early 3rd c. BC
1480s
1420s
21. 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
1286
1119
1088
9th c.
22. 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.
4th
14th c.
5th c. BC
1878
23. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1764
9th c.
Before 421 BC
36 ka
24. 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.
28 ka
1439
1990
2nd c. BC
25. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1977
60 ka
After 205 BC
1709
26. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1800-01
1733
Early 3rd c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
27. 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
Early 3rd c. BC
After 205 BC
1990
Early 3rd c. BC
28. 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
4th
1985
1804
5th c. BC
29. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
28 ka
7th c.
1282
2nd c. BC
30. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
2nd c. BC
c. 240 BC
2nd c. BC
31. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
14th c.
5th/6th c.
1915
1470s
32. Twisted rope
28 ka
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1990
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
33. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
2nd c. BC
Late 3rd
1764
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
34. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1915
2nd c. BC
408
Early 3rd c. BC
35. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
400 ka
1878
1420s
1717
36. 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
1480s
5th c. BC
7th c.
1990
37. 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
1742
1995
1977
7th c.
38. Glue in Italy
2nd
3rd c. BC
1439
200 ka
39. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
Ca. 300
December 20 - 1951
2nd c. BC
1985
40. 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
9th c.
5th c. BC
672
1804
41. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
563
1804
16 ka
1.8 million years ago
42. 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.
1709
5th c. BC
Before 421 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
43. Shelter construction
1st
1420s
563
500 thousand years ago (ka)
44. 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
c. 515 BC
9th c.
2nd c. BC
1.8 million years ago
45. Fire and then cooking
1.8 million years ago
c. 515 BC
1990
1st c. BC
46. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1995
28 ka
1877
Late 3rd c.
47. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
16 ka
After 205 BC
1717
1470s
48. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
16 ka
408
1119
Late 3rd
49. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1877
1712
408
1470s
50. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
c. 240 BC
200 ka
1877
16 ka