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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






3. Banknote in Tang Dynasty China - The banknote was first developed in China during the Tang and Song dynasties - starting in the 7th century. Its roots were in merchant receipts of deposit during the Tang Dynasty (618






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






5. Friction Match - John Walker






6. Pigments in Zambia






7. 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






8. 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






9. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






11. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.






12. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






13. 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






14. Flute in Germany






15. Friction Match - John Walker






16. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






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






19. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. 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.






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






25. Bow






26. 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






27. 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. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






30. 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






31. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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33. 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






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






35. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






36. Twisted rope






37. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






39. Burial






40. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






41. Fire and then cooking






42. 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






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






44. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






47. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






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






50. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221