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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
1977
Early 3rd c. BC
1878
1439
2. 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
1878
1878
1877
672
3. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1709
1877
28 ka
4. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
Late 3rd
1709
563
1804
5. 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
1717
1712
1282
6. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1985
December 20 - 1951
5th/6th c.
1800-01
7. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1717
Ca. 300
400 ka
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
8. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
5th c. BC
1878
1801
672
9. Twisted rope
5th c. BC
28 ka
Before 421 BC
Before 421 BC
10. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1712
1801
1st c. BC
14th c.
11. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
16 ka
1420s
1977
Early 3rd c. BC
12. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
1958-59
Late 3rd
7th c.
1878
13. 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
1985
1888
1877
1804
14. 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
1470s
9th c.
5th c. BC
December 20 - 1951
15. 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
500 thousand years ago (ka)
9th c.
1878
1712
16. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1800-01
1977
1822
Before 421 BC
17. 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
1119
1st c.
7th c.
Ca. 300
18. 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
1977
9th c.
1804
2nd
19. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1494
408
563
1878
20. Noria in Roman Empire
1494
c. 240 BC
1470s
Ca. 300
21. 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
Early 3rd c. BC
1712
5th c. BC
22. Fire and then cooking
1.8 million years ago
Late 3rd c.
1995
1990
23. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1977
1709
5th/6th c.
36 ka
24. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1764
3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
1088
25. Eyeglasses in Italy
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
2nd c. BC
1560
1286
26. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
400 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
Before 421 BC
27. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
After 205 BC
35 ka
1888
5th c. BC
28. 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
1958-59
1st c. BC
5th c. BC
29. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
36 ka
1286
Before 421 BC
5th c. BC
30. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
4th
Late 3rd c.
5th c. BC
1888
31. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1420s
1286
Before 421 BC
4th
32. Friction Match - John Walker
1826
5th c. BC
c. 480 BC
7th c.
33. 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.
563
5th c. BC
5th/6th c.
Late 3rd
34. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1888
1470s
1915
1st
35. Spears in Germany
400 ka
5th c. BC
1804
1st c. BC
36. 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.
28 ka
1.8 million years ago
1878
c. 480 BC
37. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
Late 3rd c.
16 ka
1480s
2nd c. BC
38. 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
1088
c. 240 BC
1st
2nd
39. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1286
2nd c. BC
5th/6th c.
1733
40. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
36 ka
1.8 million years ago
1804
563
41. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
9th c.
1088
14th c.
1480s
42. 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
1822
1733
672
1119
43. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
Early 3rd c. BC
1995
December 20 - 1951
Late 3rd c.
44. Spears in Germany
1420s
1470s
400 ka
1877
45. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
1494
Early 3rd c. BC
400 ka
1480s
46. 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
1088
c. 515 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1826
47. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1802
1st
December 20 - 1951
60 ka
48. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
Early 3rd c. BC
1742
1985
49. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
1804
9th c.
1822
5th c. BC
50. 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.
1282
1420s
1439
5th c. BC