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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






2. 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






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






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






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






6. Twisted rope






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






8. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece






9. Friction Match - John Walker






10. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






12. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






13. Friction Match - John Walker






14. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






15. Flute in Germany






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






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






18. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






19. Bow






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






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






22. Crane in Ancient Greece






23. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






24. 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






25. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






27. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






28. Noria in Roman Empire






29. 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






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






31. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






32. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






33. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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. Glue in Italy






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






37. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






38. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)






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






40. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






41. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






42. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






49. 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






50. 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