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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






2. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






3. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






5. Crane in Ancient Greece






6. The electric light bulb was first patented in England by 1878 by Joseph Swan after having experimented since about 1850. Thomas Edison in the U.S. was working on improving the bulb patented by Swan and was granted a U.S. patent in 1879.






7. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






8. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






9. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






10. Twisted rope






11. Fire and then cooking






12. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






14. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






15. 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






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






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






18. Pigments in Zambia






19. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






20. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






22. Shelter construction






23. Flute in Germany






24. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






25. Bow






26. 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.






27. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






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






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






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






32. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






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






35. Noria in Roman Empire






36. 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.






37. Eyeglasses in Italy






38. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






40. Cloth woven from flax fiber






41. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






42. 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






43. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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






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






48. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






49. 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






50. Noria in Roman Empire