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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






2. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






4. Crane in Ancient Greece






5. Cloth woven from flax fiber






6. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






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






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






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






11. Shelter construction






12. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






13. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






14. Fire and then cooking






15. Bow






16. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






17. 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






18. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)






19. 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.






20. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






22. 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.






23. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






24. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






25. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






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






28. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






29. Twisted rope






30. Fire and then cooking






31. 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






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






33. 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






34. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






35. Eyeglasses in Italy






36. Glue in Italy






37. 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.






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






39. 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






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






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






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. S






44. Spears in Germany






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






46. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






47. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






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






50. Buttress dam in Roman Empire