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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Flute in Germany
1709
5th c. BC
35 ka
1282
2. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1480s
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
3. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1709
1990
1605
1st c. BC
4. 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
1822
1282
1888
1119
5. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
200 ka
c. 480 BC
1733
1801
6. 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
c. 515 BC
c. 515 BC
1977
2nd c. BC
7. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
1733
Late 3rd c.
400 ka
1878
8. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
3rd c. BC
1119
1605
7th c.
9. 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
1985
1915
1st c. BC
1st c. BC
10. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
2nd c. BC
1712
1733
7th c.
11. Crane in Ancient Greece
16 ka
160
160
c. 515 BC
12. 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
1119
1801
1995
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
13. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
672
c. 515 BC
563
1282
14. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1st c. BC
5th c. BC
2nd
Late 3rd
15. 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
1709
16 ka
1804
1822
16. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1764
1878
1804
2nd c.
17. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
36 ka
1915
1958-59
1717
18. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
1801
35 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
1286
19. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1282
1717
1st c.
1800-01
20. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
1915
21. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
400 ka
1742
1804
1480s
22. 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
Before 421 BC
After 205 BC
1822
Ca. 300
23. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
1420s
Early 3rd c. BC
1088
24. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
1420s
1878
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
4th
25. Pigments in Zambia
400 ka
c. 240 BC
1709
c. 480 BC
26. 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.
1560
1717
1st c.
5th c. BC
27. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1958-59
400 ka
4th
1480s
28. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
14th c.
28 ka
After 205 BC
2nd c. BC
29. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
Before 421 BC
2nd c.
1470s
1605
30. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1494
1286
1470s
160
31. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
Late 3rd c.
1.8 million years ago
1915
32. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1877
1712
1088
Early 3rd c. BC
33. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
2nd
1733
1764
5th c. BC
34. 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.
28 ka
1712
1995
60 ka
35. Spears in Germany
9th c.
1764
1802
400 ka
36. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1st c. BC
c. 240 BC
2nd c.
Early 3rd c. BC
37. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
1985
1733
1800-01
38. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1119
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1494
5th/6th c.
39. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
2nd c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1st c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
40. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
December 20 - 1951
672
60 ka
c. 515 BC
41. 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
9th c.
1742
36 ka
5th c. BC
42. Cloth woven from flax fiber
35 ka
9th c.
36 ka
7th c.
43. Noria in Roman Empire
Early 3rd c. BC
1801
1800-01
Ca. 300
44. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
1878
Late 3rd
14th c.
5th c. BC
45. 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
160
672
1995
1877
46. Noria in Roman Empire
1439
1st
1709
Ca. 300
47. Flute in Germany
35 ka
December 20 - 1951
1088
1717
48. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
28 ka
1st
1804
c. 480 BC
49. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
5th/6th c.
1282
1733
1878
50. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
9th c.
2nd
1804
1802