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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






3. Crane in Ancient Greece






4. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






5. Shelter construction






6. Cast iron in Ancient China - Confirmed by archaeological evidence - the earliest cast iron was developed in China by the early 5th century BC during the Zhou Dynasty (1122






7. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






8. 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






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






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






11. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






12. 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






13. Fire and then cooking






14. 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






15. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC






16. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






17. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






18. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.






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






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






21. 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






22. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






24. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)






25. Pottery






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






27. Glue in Italy






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






29. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






30. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert






31. 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.






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






34. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






35. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)






36. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






37. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






38. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire






39. Eyeglasses in Italy






40. A CD-ROM (an acronym of 'Compact Disc Read-only memory') is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to - but not writable by - a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985






41. Flute in Germany






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






43. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire






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






45. 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






46. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






47. 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






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






49. 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






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






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