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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






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






3. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






4. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






5. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






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. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






9. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






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






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






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






14. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






15. 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






16. Printing press in Mainz - Germany - The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440 - based on existing screw presses. The first confirmed record of a press appeared in a 1439 lawsuit against Gutenberg.






17. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280






18. Bow






19. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






20. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






21. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






22. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)






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. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






25. 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.






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






27. Fire and then cooking






28. Burial






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






30. Friction Match - John Walker






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






32. Spears in Germany






33. 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






34. Spears in Germany






35. Crane in Ancient Greece






36. 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






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






38. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






39. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






41. 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.






42. 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






43. Twisted rope






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






45. S






46. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






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






49. Printing press in Mainz - Germany - The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440 - based on existing screw presses. The first confirmed record of a press appeared in a 1439 lawsuit against Gutenberg.






50. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic