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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Glue in Italy






2. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






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






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






6. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






8. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






9. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






11. 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






12. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






13. Friction Match - John Walker






14. Friction Match - John Walker






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






16. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






17. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






18. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






19. 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






20. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic






21. Burial






22. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






23. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






24. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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






26. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






27. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






28. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






30. 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.






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






32. Pigments in Zambia






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






34. Glue in Italy






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






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






37. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






38. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






39. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






40. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






41. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280






42. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






43. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






44. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






45. 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






46. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






48. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






49. Noria in Roman Empire






50. Shelter construction