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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






2. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






3. Noria in Roman Empire






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






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






6. Burial






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






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






9. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard






10. Spears in Germany






11. Bow






12. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






15. Pottery






16. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece






17. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






18. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






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






21. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.






22. Pigments in Zambia






23. Bow






24. Twisted rope






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






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






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






28. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard






29. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






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






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






33. Crane in Ancient Greece






34. Pigments in Zambia






35. 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






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






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






38. 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






39. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






41. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






42. 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.






43. Pottery






44. 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.






45. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






46. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






47. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






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






50. Wind power in an open air stream is thus proportional to the third power of the wind speed; the available power increases eightfold when the wind speed doubles. Wind turbines for grid electricity therefore need to be especially efficient at greater w