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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. 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






3. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






4. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






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






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






7. 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






8. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






9. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






10. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






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






13. 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.






14. Burial






15. 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






16. Shelter construction






17. Eyeglasses in Italy






18. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






19. 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






20. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






21. Friction Match - John Walker






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






23. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






24. 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






25. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






26. 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






27. Flute in Germany






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






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






30. Bow






31. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






32. Fire and then cooking






33. 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






34. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






36. Eyeglasses in Italy






37. 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






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






39. Shelter construction






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






41. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






43. 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.






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






45. S






46. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






47. Noria in Roman Empire






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






49. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






50. 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