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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. The electric light bulb was first patented in England by 1878 by Joseph Swan after having experimented since about 1850. Thomas Edison in the U.S. was working on improving the bulb patented by Swan and was granted a U.S. patent in 1879.






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






3. Fire and then cooking






4. S






5. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






6. Glue in Italy






7. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






9. 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






10. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






11. 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






12. 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






13. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






14. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






16. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






23. 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






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






25. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






27. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho






28. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






29. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






31. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






33. Crane in Ancient Greece






34. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






35. Cloth woven from flax fiber






36. 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.






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






38. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






39. 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






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






41. 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






42. 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






43. 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






44. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






45. Flute in Germany






46. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






47. Bow






48. The electric light bulb was first patented in England by 1878 by Joseph Swan after having experimented since about 1850. Thomas Edison in the U.S. was working on improving the bulb patented by Swan and was granted a U.S. patent in 1879.






49. Shelter construction






50. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283