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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. 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.
After 205 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1877
5th c. BC
2. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1st c. BC
2nd c. BC
1804
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
3. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
9th c.
2nd c. BC
Before 421 BC
c. 240 BC
4. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
After 205 BC
1878
1st c. BC
1st
5. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1888
1878
Early 3rd c. BC
14th c.
6. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
Late 3rd
2nd
c. 480 BC
1990
7. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1286
1st
1282
408
8. Shelter construction
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1877
2nd c. BC
1st
9. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1802
4th
2nd c. BC
10. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1439
December 20 - 1951
1st c. BC
1877
11. Pottery
16 ka
5th c. BC
1977
Ca. 300
12. 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
2nd c.
1088
December 20 - 1951
1804
13. Spears in Germany
1878
400 ka
1286
5th/6th c.
14. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1801
5th c. BC
1.8 million years ago
28 ka
15. Noria in Roman Empire
28 ka
1995
Early 3rd c. BC
Ca. 300
16. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
c. 480 BC
1088
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1494
17. Eyeglasses in Italy
2nd c. BC
1878
1286
1764
18. 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.
35 ka
1439
December 20 - 1951
2nd c. BC
19. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
400 ka
c. 515 BC
2nd c. BC
1st c. BC
20. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1995
1804
1st c. BC
1st
21. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
563
1420s
35 ka
9th c.
22. 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.
1990
1717
1439
Early 3rd c. BC
23. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
36 ka
160
9th c.
Before 421 BC
24. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
Late 3rd
1470s
1712
1800-01
25. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
c. 240 BC
2nd c. BC
1st c.
1977
26. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
60 ka
c. 515 BC
1804
1800-01
27. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
Early 3rd c. BC
1888
1801
1494
28. Shelter construction
1800-01
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd c.
1605
29. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
2nd c.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
3rd c. BC
1st c. BC
30. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
1605
2nd c. BC
9th c.
1420s
31. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
1990
2nd c. BC
7th c.
December 20 - 1951
32. Cloth woven from flax fiber
36 ka
2nd
1764
2nd c. BC
33. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
December 20 - 1951
1802
1977
1420s
34. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
Early 3rd c. BC
c. 240 BC
408
1560
35. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1801
1st c. BC
563
Early 3rd c. BC
36. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
400 ka
1877
1480s
400 ka
37. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1804
After 205 BC
36 ka
1826
38. Spears in Germany
1560
1995
400 ka
36 ka
39. Twisted rope
1888
Ca. 300
1804
28 ka
40. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
2nd c.
1470s
36 ka
500 thousand years ago (ka)
41. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1494
9th c.
200 ka
1480s
42. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
c. 515 BC
3rd c. BC
1st c.
Ca. 300
43. Eyeglasses in Italy
1286
1804
2nd c.
1877
44. Pigments in Zambia
1804
400 ka
1286
28 ka
45. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c. BC
1958-59
1.8 million years ago
46. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
c. 480 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
47. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
5th c. BC
1709
Early 3rd c. BC
160
48. 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
5th/6th c.
1480s
1.8 million years ago
1888
49. Glue in Italy
1119
200 ka
2nd c.
c. 480 BC
50. 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
1733
9th c.
1764
500 thousand years ago (ka)