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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






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






5. 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






6. Noria in Roman Empire






7. 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






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






9. Burial






10. 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






11. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






12. Fire and then cooking






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






14. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






16. 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






17. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






18. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






20. Twisted rope






21. Friction Match - John Walker






22. Glue in Italy






23. 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






24. Friction Match - John Walker






25. 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.






26. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






27. 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






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






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






30. 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






31. 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.






32. Bow






33. 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






34. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard






35. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






36. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






37. 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






38. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






39. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






41. 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






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






43. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






44. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






45. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently






46. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






47. 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






48. Glue in Italy






49. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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