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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






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






3. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






4. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






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






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






8. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






9. Twisted rope






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






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






12. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Noria in Roman Empire






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






22. Fire and then cooking






23. Cloth woven from flax fiber






24. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






25. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






27. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






29. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






31. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






32. Friction Match - John Walker






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.






34. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






35. Spears in Germany






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.






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






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






39. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






41. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






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






44. Spears in Germany






45. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283






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






47. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






48. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






49. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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.