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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Glue in Italy
3rd c. BC
1st c.
1717
200 ka
2. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
16 ka
1915
14th c.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
3. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
60 ka
1804
5th/6th c.
200 ka
4. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
9th c.
1878
563
Ca. 300
5. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1st c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1712
1560
6. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1802
4th
1709
2nd c.
7. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
1709
Early 3rd c. BC
1915
After 205 BC
8. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
After 205 BC
1709
Ca. 300
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
9. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1420s
c. 240 BC
1494
1st
10. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
14th c.
2nd c. BC
1st c. BC
1st c. BC
11. 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
December 20 - 1951
9th c.
563
c. 480 BC
12. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
1480s
2nd c. BC
1878
13. Friction Match - John Walker
1764
1826
1st c. BC
4th
14. Friction Match - John Walker
1119
1826
1985
1915
15. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1990
5th/6th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
c. 515 BC
16. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
35 ka
5th c. BC
1.8 million years ago
17. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
9th c.
1282
1764
18. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
9th c.
1742
1480s
19. 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
1800-01
1801
4th
1915
20. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
c. 240 BC
1st c. BC
Late 3rd c.
5th/6th c.
21. Burial
December 20 - 1951
160
1480s
563
22. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1st c.
1470s
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1494
23. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
Late 3rd c.
5th c. BC
2nd c. BC
1717
24. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1605
1915
1709
After 205 BC
25. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1282
1878
9th c.
Before 421 BC
26. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1709
1915
1764
Before 421 BC
27. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
1990
1717
Before 421 BC
2nd c. BC
28. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
5th/6th c.
1826
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
29. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
December 20 - 1951
60 ka
c. 480 BC
1420s
30. 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.
1st c. BC
1439
1985
400 ka
31. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
9th c.
1st c.
2nd c.
Late 3rd c.
32. Pigments in Zambia
9th c.
1439
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
400 ka
33. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
2nd
2nd
1605
1439
34. Glue in Italy
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c.
1439
200 ka
35. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
December 20 - 1951
1822
408
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
36. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1800-01
1119
1605
c. 240 BC
37. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
16 ka
1764
5th c. BC
1st c. BC
38. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
1888
1985
160
14th c.
39. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
1088
4th
1088
408
40. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
1800-01
5th c. BC
1712
Late 3rd
41. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
3rd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1990
1802
42. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
2nd c. BC
1712
1985
1826
43. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1977
1877
2nd c. BC
1733
44. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
After 205 BC
5th/6th c.
1.8 million years ago
1494
45. 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
1119
9th c.
1709
563
46. Cloth woven from flax fiber
563
1764
1088
36 ka
47. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
1605
1st c.
2nd c. BC
Late 3rd c.
48. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1977
2nd c.
5th c. BC
35 ka
49. Noria in Roman Empire
1804
1480s
Ca. 300
2nd c. BC
50. Shelter construction
500 thousand years ago (ka)
400 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
1560