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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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.






2. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






3. Cast iron in Ancient China - Confirmed by archaeological evidence - the earliest cast iron was developed in China by the early 5th century BC during the Zhou Dynasty (1122






4. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






6. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






7. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






8. Spears in Germany






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






10. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






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






13. 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






14. Cloth woven from flax fiber






15. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






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






18. 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






19. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






20. Shelter construction






21. 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






22. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






25. Spears in Germany






26. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






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






29. 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






30. Flute in Germany






31. 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






32. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






33. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






34. 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.






35. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






36. 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.






37. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






38. Glue in Italy






39. 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






40. 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






41. 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






42. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






43. Twisted rope






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






45. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






46. 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






47. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






49. Eyeglasses in Italy






50. Crane in Ancient Greece