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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Spears in Germany






2. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






4. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






6. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






7. S






8. 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.






9. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






10. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)






11. Fire and then cooking






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






13. Pigments in Zambia






14. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






15. 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






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






17. Cloth woven from flax fiber






18. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC






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






20. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






21. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire






22. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






23. Friction Match - John Walker






24. 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.






25. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






27. 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






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






29. Flute in Germany






30. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






31. 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.






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






34. Bow






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






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






37. Noria in Roman Empire






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






39. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






40. 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






41. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






43. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






44. Glue in Italy






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






46. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






47. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






48. 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.






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






50. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa