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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






4. Glue in Italy






5. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






7. Eyeglasses in Italy






8. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






10. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






11. Flute in Germany






12. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






13. Spears in Germany






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






15. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






16. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






18. 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






19. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






20. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






21. Shelter construction






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






23. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






24. 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






25. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






27. 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.






28. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






29. Noria in Roman Empire






30. Cloth woven from flax fiber






31. 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






32. Friction Match - John Walker






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






34. 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






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






36. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






37. Pottery






38. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






39. Friction Match - John Walker






40. Pottery






41. Pigments in Zambia






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






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






47. 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






48. 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






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. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.