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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
4th
1804
1712
2nd c.
2. Bow
Ca. 300
60 ka
1878
9th c.
3. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1801
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
2nd c.
2nd c. BC
4. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1712
1802
400 ka
2nd c. BC
5. 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
1958-59
Ca. 300
1st c. BC
9th c.
6. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1494
Before 421 BC
1470s
1560
7. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
2nd c.
1801
1888
2nd
8. 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
1826
1742
400 ka
672
9. Burial
400 ka
1995
7th c.
160
10. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1800-01
9th c.
1764
1st
11. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
1439
c. 480 BC
2nd c.
5th c. BC
12. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1494
400 ka
5th c. BC
563
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
1560
5th c. BC
1977
1958-59
14. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
Before 421 BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
160
Ca. 300
15. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1420s
1958-59
7th c.
36 ka
16. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1877
1742
5th c. BC
17. Noria in Roman Empire
1st c. BC
35 ka
Ca. 300
1733
18. Flute in Germany
400 ka
9th c.
35 ka
After 205 BC
19. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
2nd c. BC
After 205 BC
1801
1286
20. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
Before 421 BC
Ca. 300
9th c.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
21. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1804
c. 240 BC
2nd c.
7th c.
22. Eyeglasses in Italy
3rd c. BC
1878
2nd c. BC
1286
23. 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
1742
1915
1.8 million years ago
Early 3rd c. BC
24. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
2nd c. BC
200 ka
1480s
1480s
25. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
2nd c. BC
1878
14th c.
1804
26. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1822
1764
1800-01
Early 3rd c. BC
27. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
7th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1804
28. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
408
1877
5th c. BC
2nd c. BC
29. Spears in Germany
1990
1985
1733
400 ka
30. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1709
1st c. BC
1282
Early 3rd c. BC
31. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1717
1804
1282
9th c.
32. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Late 3rd
9th c.
2nd
Ca. 300
33. 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
c. 515 BC
400 ka
14th c.
5th c. BC
34. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
c. 480 BC
3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
1560
35. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
Late 3rd c.
1878
28 ka
5th c. BC
36. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1st c. BC
1878
1800-01
1439
37. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
563
1888
1990
408
38. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
16 ka
c. 240 BC
563
1480s
39. Glue in Italy
Ca. 300
4th
2nd
200 ka
40. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
c. 480 BC
1494
1802
Early 3rd c. BC
41. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1985
After 205 BC
7th c.
1560
42. Eyeglasses in Italy
Early 3rd c. BC
28 ka
1286
3rd c. BC
43. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1.8 million years ago
1764
35 ka
1119
44. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
2nd c.
1733
3rd c. BC
1995
45. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
5th/6th c.
1470s
c. 480 BC
1804
46. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
1977
c. 240 BC
1764
Early 3rd c. BC
47. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
400 ka
1977
2nd
Early 3rd c. BC
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
1888
1990
Early 3rd c. BC
c. 515 BC
49. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
14th c.
2nd c.
1995
c. 240 BC
50. 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
1088
408
1.8 million years ago
7th c.