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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
1712
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1977
35 ka
2. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1.8 million years ago
1119
1480s
1494
3. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1.8 million years ago
3rd c. BC
4th
c. 240 BC
4. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1878
2nd c.
1119
Early 3rd c. BC
5. Crane in Ancient Greece
Late 3rd c.
1480s
1995
c. 515 BC
6. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
December 20 - 1951
1977
1958-59
9th c.
7. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
14th c.
400 ka
1826
Early 3rd c. BC
8. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
Late 3rd
1733
1804
1995
9. 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
672
1733
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c. BC
10. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
408
c. 480 BC
1878
1.8 million years ago
11. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
9th c.
1st
1.8 million years ago
1st c. BC
12. 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.
Early 3rd c. BC
1990
2nd c. BC
1995
13. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
1804
2nd
1st c.
14. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
563
5th/6th c.
Ca. 300
3rd c. BC
15. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
563
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
16. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1712
563
1560
1282
17. 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
5th/6th c.
2nd c. BC
1088
3rd c. BC
18. Pottery
563
160
16 ka
5th c. BC
19. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
Late 3rd
Before 421 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
20. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1470s
36 ka
1764
7th c.
21. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1119
5th c. BC
4th
200 ka
22. 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
1915
5th c. BC
Late 3rd
2nd c. BC
23. Burial
160
c. 480 BC
1439
2nd c. BC
24. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
14th c.
1286
1119
December 20 - 1951
25. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1605
1470s
1282
1119
26. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
1560
5th c. BC
1439
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
1804
672
5th c. BC
5th c. BC
28. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1878
1420s
5th c. BC
1877
29. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
Ca. 300
408
36 ka
c. 515 BC
30. 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
1995
1742
1990
672
31. 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.
2nd
1439
5th/6th c.
400 ka
32. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1605
Late 3rd
1560
5th c. BC
33. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
400 ka
1915
34. Spears in Germany
1800-01
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
Early 3rd c. BC
400 ka
35. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1712
1st c. BC
9th c.
2nd c. BC
36. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
Late 3rd c.
1605
1709
Early 3rd c. BC
37. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1802
December 20 - 1951
1st c.
1804
38. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
3rd c. BC
1712
1709
16 ka
39. 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
1822
5th c. BC
2nd
c. 480 BC
40. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
1605
1st c. BC
60 ka
4th
41. 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.
1st c. BC
1802
Before 421 BC
5th c. BC
42. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
Late 3rd
16 ka
160
43. 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
2nd c. BC
Late 3rd c.
9th c.
672
44. Cloth woven from flax fiber
36 ka
December 20 - 1951
16 ka
563
45. Friction Match - John Walker
5th c. BC
1826
1764
672
46. Shelter construction
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1877
1877
16 ka
47. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1282
1800-01
9th c.
408
48. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
After 205 BC
Ca. 300
5th c. BC
49. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1878
After 205 BC
160
1764
50. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
9th c.
7th c.
1801
1915