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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1282
Late 3rd c.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd c.
2. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
5th c. BC
2nd c. BC
1717
1.8 million years ago
3. Noria in Roman Empire
9th c.
Ca. 300
1717
1605
4. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1990
1560
400 ka
4th
5. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1878
1119
1958-59
Ca. 300
6. Burial
Early 3rd c. BC
c. 480 BC
1282
160
7. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1st
1st c. BC
563
1480s
8. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
1712
1088
3rd c. BC
1800-01
9. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1804
1st
4th
1801
10. Spears in Germany
400 ka
9th c.
35 ka
1.8 million years ago
11. Bow
1480s
5th/6th c.
60 ka
2nd c. BC
12. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
408
1st
Late 3rd c.
1742
13. 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
1977
563
c. 515 BC
1802
14. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
5th c. BC
1470s
1915
400 ka
15. Pottery
1877
1915
16 ka
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
16. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
Early 3rd c. BC
160
28 ka
2nd c. BC
17. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
After 205 BC
160
1804
2nd c.
18. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
Early 3rd c. BC
1888
1494
14th c.
19. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
1804
16 ka
1800-01
20. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
9th c.
5th/6th c.
400 ka
December 20 - 1951
21. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1.8 million years ago
1712
9th c.
1st c.
22. Pigments in Zambia
400 ka
Late 3rd
1802
1804
23. Bow
3rd c. BC
Before 421 BC
60 ka
1712
24. Twisted rope
2nd c.
1494
Ca. 300
28 ka
25. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
2nd
Early 3rd c. BC
9th c.
1605
26. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1119
Early 3rd c. BC
1800-01
1709
27. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
200 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
1800-01
December 20 - 1951
28. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
Before 421 BC
1801
1st c. BC
1990
29. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
1420s
5th c. BC
Late 3rd c.
30. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
2nd c.
1958-59
2nd c. BC
160
31. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
4th
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
14th c.
1286
32. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
c. 240 BC
9th c.
Ca. 300
1804
33. Crane in Ancient Greece
c. 515 BC
1877
1480s
563
34. Pigments in Zambia
1.8 million years ago
1560
1977
400 ka
35. 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
1494
3rd c. BC
9th c.
c. 240 BC
36. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1560
5th c. BC
400 ka
1st c.
37. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
c. 480 BC
1494
1822
c. 240 BC
38. 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
9th c.
1888
36 ka
200 ka
39. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
1822
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
40. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
5th c. BC
1st c. BC
2nd c. BC
1088
41. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1470s
1733
1480s
1888
42. 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.
2nd c. BC
c. 515 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1995
43. Pottery
1801
16 ka
1st c. BC
1990
44. 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
1878
3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
45. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1420s
Ca. 300
1742
2nd
46. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
400 ka
9th c.
1733
47. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
5th c. BC
c. 515 BC
1709
48. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
1800-01
Early 3rd c. BC
35 ka
14th c.
49. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1764
December 20 - 1951
1804
1439
50. 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
1888
5th c. BC
400 ka
1282