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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Glue in Italy






2. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






3. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






4. 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






5. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






7. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






8. Pottery






9. 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






10. Cloth woven from flax fiber






11. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






13. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






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






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






17. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






18. 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






19. Shelter construction






20. Crane in Ancient Greece






21. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






22. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






23. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






24. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho






25. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






27. Noria in Roman Empire






28. 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.






29. Flute in Germany






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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.






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






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






36. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






37. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






38. 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






39. Friction Match - John Walker






40. Noria in Roman Empire






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






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






43. 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






44. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






45. Burial






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






47. 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






48. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece






49. 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






50. Pigments in Zambia