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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
1119
1977
200 ka
1560
2. Pottery
2nd c. BC
35 ka
1958-59
16 ka
3. Shelter construction
1733
1st c.
2nd c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
4. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1801
4th
Ca. 300
500 thousand years ago (ka)
5. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1826
500 thousand years ago (ka)
672
563
6. 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
2nd
563
2nd c. BC
9th c.
7. 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
1822
Early 3rd c. BC
60 ka
1888
8. Flute in Germany
160
1995
35 ka
1822
9. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
2nd c. BC
1990
1822
1717
10. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
9th c.
28 ka
28 ka
1802
11. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1878
1822
1742
1995
12. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1470s
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1764
Before 421 BC
13. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
5th c. BC
408
Early 3rd c. BC
36 ka
14. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1802
1605
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
2nd
15. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
3rd c. BC
c. 515 BC
5th c. BC
1985
16. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd c. BC
400 ka
1st c. BC
17. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
14th c.
1st c. BC
1800-01
Late 3rd c.
18. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
c. 240 BC
408
4th
Early 3rd c. BC
19. Twisted rope
5th c. BC
1742
16 ka
28 ka
20. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c.
5th c. BC
1286
21. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
9th c.
1985
14th c.
1878
22. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1282
1480s
1958-59
1801
23. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
Late 3rd c.
7th c.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1560
24. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
5th c. BC
Before 421 BC
1877
25. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
3rd c. BC
2nd c.
1560
c. 240 BC
26. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
1560
Early 3rd c. BC
1712
1494
27. Fire and then cooking
Late 3rd c.
1.8 million years ago
1764
1802
28. 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
1742
1822
1915
Early 3rd c. BC
29. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1st
c. 480 BC
1977
1822
30. 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
1802
c. 240 BC
1709
9th c.
31. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
3rd c. BC
5th/6th c.
200 ka
1801
32. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
16 ka
1470s
Late 3rd c.
200 ka
33. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1888
1800-01
1717
1826
34. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1st c.
5th/6th c.
1709
2nd c. BC
35. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
Late 3rd c.
1470s
1st c. BC
36. 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.
1717
9th c.
1995
c. 240 BC
37. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
5th c. BC
1712
1915
563
38. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
9th c.
1804
1480s
200 ka
39. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1802
1804
563
1st c.
40. 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
7th c.
1990
1804
c. 240 BC
41. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1st
1822
Early 3rd c. BC
1282
42. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1877
7th c.
1804
1990
43. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
Early 3rd c. BC
1480s
Ca. 300
5th c. BC
44. 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. BC
1888
5th/6th c.
1878
45. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
160
After 205 BC
1826
1733
46. 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
1822
1877
1764
672
47. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1st
36 ka
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
48. Glue in Italy
200 ka
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1717
1470s
49. 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
9th c.
1560
2nd
1878
50. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
1804
2nd c. BC
1878
Before 421 BC