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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






2. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






3. Crane in Ancient Greece






4. Glue in Italy






5. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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.






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






12. Glue in Italy






13. Noria in Roman Empire






14. 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






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






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






17. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






18. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






20. Spears in Germany






21. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






22. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






23. 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






24. Spears in Germany






25. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






26. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






27. Bow






28. Noria in Roman Empire






29. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






30. 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






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






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






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






34. 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






35. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






36. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






37. Pigments in Zambia






38. Cloth woven from flax fiber






39. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






40. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






41. 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






42. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire






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






44. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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