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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
1605
Before 421 BC
2nd c. BC
2. Twisted rope
1470s
1915
9th c.
28 ka
3. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
400 ka
After 205 BC
1915
1915
4. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
5th c. BC
28 ka
c. 480 BC
400 ka
5. Pigments in Zambia
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
160
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
400 ka
6. 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
7th c.
1801
c. 240 BC
5th c. BC
7. Pottery
c. 480 BC
Late 3rd c.
1439
16 ka
8. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
1804
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
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
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1985
Early 3rd c. BC
4th
10. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
60 ka
After 205 BC
2nd c.
Early 3rd c. BC
11. Flute in Germany
1717
16 ka
35 ka
1st c. BC
12. Cloth woven from flax fiber
5th c. BC
160
5th c. BC
36 ka
13. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
Ca. 300
9th c.
Early 3rd c. BC
1st c. BC
14. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1st c. BC
9th c.
4th
1712
15. Friction Match - John Walker
672
1420s
35 ka
1826
16. 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
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
5th c. BC
1802
1888
17. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1480s
1494
563
1801
18. Eyeglasses in Italy
1286
5th/6th c.
After 205 BC
1958-59
19. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
4th
36 ka
1717
December 20 - 1951
20. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
60 ka
4th
2nd c. BC
160
21. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
160
1977
1712
c. 480 BC
22. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1800-01
9th c.
1878
5th c. BC
23. 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
Late 3rd
1733
Before 421 BC
9th c.
24. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
1470s
Before 421 BC
1605
1801
25. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
672
1709
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
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
1st
1804
35 ka
1801
27. 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
4th
1888
Late 3rd
9th c.
28. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
After 205 BC
1470s
c. 240 BC
29. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
14th c.
5th c. BC
1888
1709
30. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
Before 421 BC
1470s
Late 3rd
5th/6th c.
31. 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
1st
1878
1977
1804
32. Fire and then cooking
1st c.
1888
1878
1.8 million years ago
33. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1985
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1470s
2nd
34. 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
1878
1st c.
1480s
1990
35. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1742
408
5th c. BC
1560
36. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
4th
Late 3rd c.
2nd c. BC
1801
37. Eyeglasses in Italy
1286
1915
1800-01
December 20 - 1951
38. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
2nd c. BC
672
2nd c.
5th c. BC
39. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1977
1.8 million years ago
Early 3rd c. BC
1470s
40. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
c. 480 BC
Late 3rd c.
1733
1977
41. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
1878
14th c.
5th c. BC
400 ka
42. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
1480s
3rd c. BC
60 ka
1764
43. Flute in Germany
1088
1420s
35 ka
2nd c.
44. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1560
1439
2nd c.
1877
45. Twisted rope
1985
28 ka
2nd c.
December 20 - 1951
46. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1800-01
1877
400 ka
1470s
47. 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.
5th c. BC
5th/6th c.
400 ka
1494
48. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
2nd c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
49. 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
408
Late 3rd c.
1st c. BC
1119
50. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
7th c.
60 ka
1764
9th c.
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