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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. 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






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






4. 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






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. Pigments in Zambia






9. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






11. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)






12. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






14. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






16. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






17. Burial






18. 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






19. 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






20. Shelter construction






21. Pigments in Zambia






22. Noria in Roman Empire






23. 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






24. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






25. Bow






26. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






27. 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






28. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






29. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






30. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






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






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






33. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






34. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






36. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






37. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






38. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






39. Pottery






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






41. Eyeglasses in Italy






42. 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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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






48. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






49. Friction Match - John Walker






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