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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






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






3. 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






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






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






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






7. 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






8. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






9. Spears in Germany






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






11. 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.






12. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






13. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






14. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






15. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






16. Cloth woven from flax fiber






17. Bow






18. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






24. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






26. Noria in Roman Empire






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






28. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. Flute in Germany






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






34. Fire and then cooking






35. 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






36. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






37. 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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. Fire and then cooking






46. 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






47. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






48. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






49. 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.






50. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic