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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
60 ka
5th/6th c.
14th c.
1995
2. 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.
1977
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
3. 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
400 ka
14th c.
1119
2nd c.
4. 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
2nd
672
1915
1.8 million years ago
5. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1877
14th c.
4th
1822
6. Fire and then cooking
5th c. BC
1878
1.8 million years ago
2nd c. BC
7. 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
1888
1712
c. 515 BC
9th c.
8. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
36 ka
Late 3rd
5th c. BC
Before 421 BC
9. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
5th c. BC
1804
5th/6th c.
10. Burial
1764
160
1088
1990
11. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
160
1605
1877
35 ka
12. Shelter construction
1990
1717
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1804
13. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1470s
9th c.
9th c.
1878
14. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1764
c. 240 BC
9th c.
c. 240 BC
15. Glue in Italy
1st c. BC
200 ka
563
1990
16. Flute in Germany
5th c. BC
2nd c. BC
9th c.
35 ka
17. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1.8 million years ago
200 ka
1990
1800-01
18. Spears in Germany
Before 421 BC
5th c. BC
400 ka
1742
19. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
16 ka
c. 515 BC
20. Bow
5th c. BC
60 ka
1801
36 ka
21. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
2nd
1990
1800-01
1985
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
1717
672
Late 3rd
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
23. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1877
1286
5th/6th c.
1709
24. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
3rd c. BC
1439
December 20 - 1951
1286
25. Flute in Germany
35 ka
Ca. 300
Early 3rd c. BC
1915
26. Twisted rope
1878
1878
1480s
28 ka
27. 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
1800-01
1915
5th c. BC
4th
28. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1712
1804
1st
14th c.
29. 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
2nd c. BC
1985
7th c.
2nd c. BC
30. Crane in Ancient Greece
35 ka
1560
c. 515 BC
2nd c. BC
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
1958-59
Early 3rd c. BC
1977
1985
32. Noria in Roman Empire
1733
Ca. 300
Early 3rd c. BC
After 205 BC
33. Cloth woven from flax fiber
500 thousand years ago (ka)
36 ka
9th c.
2nd c. BC
34. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1605
1804
9th c.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
35. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
4th
563
1877
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
36. 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
1804
1888
Early 3rd c. BC
Before 421 BC
37. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1709
1804
1560
1286
38. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
5th c. BC
1286
1826
563
39. 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.
2nd c. BC
1439
200 ka
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
40. 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
1282
1712
2nd c. BC
1822
41. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1.8 million years ago
1804
1801
16 ka
42. 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
Before 421 BC
9th c.
1480s
14th c.
43. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
16 ka
1st c. BC
1119
1605
44. 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
Early 3rd c. BC
1878
1888
1977
45. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
Early 3rd c. BC
14th c.
1742
1977
46. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1878
36 ka
1709
5th c. BC
47. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
60 ka
1733
2nd c. BC
1.8 million years ago
48. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
2nd
35 ka
36 ka
1878
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
1st c.
672
3rd c. BC
1st c.
50. 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
1802
1990
200 ka
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)