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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






2. Crane in Ancient Greece






3. Eyeglasses in Italy






4. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






5. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






6. Pottery






7. Fire and then cooking






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






9. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






10. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






11. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






13. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






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






16. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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18. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. Glue in Italy






23. Spears in Germany






24. 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.






25. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire






26. 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






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






28. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






30. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






31. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






32. Flute in Germany






33. 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






34. 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.






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






36. S






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






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






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






40. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






41. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






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






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






45. Cloth woven from flax fiber






46. Noria in Roman Empire






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






48. 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






49. 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






50. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic