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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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






2. Noria in Roman Empire






3. 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






4. Friction Match - John Walker






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






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






7. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






8. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






9. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






10. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






11. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






12. Twisted rope






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






14. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






15. Spears in Germany






16. 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






17. 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






18. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






20. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






22. 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






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






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






25. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






26. Glue in Italy






27. 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.






28. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard






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






30. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






36. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






37. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






38. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






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41. 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






42. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






43. Glue in Italy






44. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






46. 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






47. Flute in Germany






48. 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






49. 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.






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