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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






2. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






3. 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






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






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






6. Twisted rope






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






8. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






9. Cloth woven from flax fiber






10. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






11. 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






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






13. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






14. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






15. Pottery






16. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






17. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






18. Flute in Germany






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






20. 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






21. Spears in Germany






22. 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






23. 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






24. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






26. Glue in Italy






27. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






28. Eyeglasses in Italy






29. Pigments in Zambia






30. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






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






33. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






34. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






35. Bow






36. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






37. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






38. Burial






39. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






40. Crane in Ancient Greece






41. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






42. 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






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44. Friction Match - John Walker






45. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






46. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






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






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






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