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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1800-01
160
1878
1420s
2. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1286
1802
4th
400 ka
3. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1804
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1958-59
36 ka
4. 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
1804
1985
14th c.
1119
5. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1958-59
1990
400 ka
1560
6. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
16 ka
9th c.
1985
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
7. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
5th/6th c.
7th c.
1480s
5th/6th c.
8. 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.
36 ka
500 thousand years ago (ka)
December 20 - 1951
5th c. BC
9. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
16 ka
4th
1888
1742
10. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1990
Early 3rd c. BC
1801
1420s
11. Burial
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c.
160
1877
12. Flute in Germany
1st c. BC
35 ka
5th c. BC
2nd
13. Shelter construction
1888
408
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1282
14. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1822
563
2nd c. BC
1995
15. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1st c. BC
160
1709
672
16. Pottery
1977
2nd
Late 3rd
16 ka
17. 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
5th c. BC
1st c.
Early 3rd c. BC
672
18. 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
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1470s
400 ka
9th c.
19. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
1826
Late 3rd c.
9th c.
December 20 - 1951
20. 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
1990
Late 3rd
Early 3rd c. BC
408
21. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
2nd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1822
1st
22. 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
2nd c. BC
5th/6th c.
1915
1494
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.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
5th c. BC
1878
Early 3rd c. BC
24. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c. BC
5th c. BC
1st c.
1439
25. S
1717
1877
672
1985
26. Bow
1888
December 20 - 1951
408
60 ka
27. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
c. 480 BC
Late 3rd
Ca. 300
36 ka
28. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1470s
1st c. BC
400 ka
16 ka
29. 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
5th c. BC
400 ka
1742
Before 421 BC
30. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
Before 421 BC
c. 240 BC
4th
408
31. Pottery
Late 3rd
1801
1804
16 ka
32. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1958-59
4th
1st c. BC
160
33. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
c. 480 BC
1088
1119
2nd c.
34. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
c. 240 BC
408
1.8 million years ago
Early 3rd c. BC
35. Eyeglasses in Italy
1605
c. 480 BC
1286
400 ka
36. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
c. 480 BC
1088
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1801
37. Flute in Germany
500 thousand years ago (ka)
Early 3rd c. BC
35 ka
1480s
38. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
December 20 - 1951
Early 3rd c. BC
7th c.
1st c. BC
39. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
1470s
400 ka
1712
14th c.
40. Eyeglasses in Italy
1088
1990
Early 3rd c. BC
1286
41. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
1958-59
1990
c. 480 BC
200 ka
42. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1958-59
1st c. BC
1712
2nd c. BC
43. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1439
5th/6th c.
1712
2nd c.
44. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1742
Ca. 300
1.8 million years ago
1st c. BC
45. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1804
1712
1470s
1877
46. 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
1977
Late 3rd
7th c.
1470s
47. Glue in Italy
2nd c. BC
563
200 ka
1709
48. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1560
1st c. BC
408
5th/6th c.
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
60 ka
1st c. BC
1985
1958-59
50. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1480s
1804
1717
2nd c. BC