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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Pottery






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






3. 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.






4. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






5. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






7. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






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






10. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






12. 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






13. Crane in Ancient Greece






14. Flute in Germany






15. Friction Match - John Walker






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






17. 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






18. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






20. Pigments in Zambia






21. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






22. Spears in Germany






23. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






24. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






25. Burial






26. Shelter construction






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






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






29. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






30. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






31. Spears in Germany






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






33. Fire and then cooking






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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. Noria in Roman Empire






40. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






41. 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.






42. 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






43. Glue in Italy






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






45. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






47. 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






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






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






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