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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






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






3. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire






4. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






5. 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






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






7. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






8. 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






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






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






11. 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






12. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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16. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






18. Noria in Roman Empire






19. 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






20. Pottery






21. Cloth woven from flax fiber






22. 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






23. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






25. Shelter construction






26. Cloth woven from flax fiber






27. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






28. 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






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






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






31. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






32. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






33. Bow






34. 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






35. Flute in Germany






36. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






38. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






39. Shelter construction






40. 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.






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






42. Twisted rope






43. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






44. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






45. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






46. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






48. 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.






49. Bow






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