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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Noria in Roman Empire






2. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






3. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






4. Pigments in Zambia






5. 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






6. 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






7. 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






8. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






9. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






10. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






12. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






13. 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






14. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






15. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






16. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






17. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






19. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






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






22. Crane in Ancient Greece






23. 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






24. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire






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






26. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






27. 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






28. 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.






29. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






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






32. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






33. Bow






34. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






35. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






37. 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






38. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






39. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






40. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






42. 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






43. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






44. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






45. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






47. Flute in Germany






48. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






49. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






50. 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