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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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






2. Pottery






3. Shelter construction






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






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. Flute in Germany






9. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






11. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






12. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






13. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






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






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






17. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






18. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






19. Twisted rope






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






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






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






23. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






24. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






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






27. Fire and then cooking






28. 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






29. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






30. 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






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






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






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






34. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






40. 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






41. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






42. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






43. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






44. 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.






45. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






46. 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






47. Cloth woven from flax fiber






48. Glue in Italy






49. 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






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