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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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3. 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






4. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard






5. 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






6. Twisted rope






7. 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.






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






9. Fire and then cooking






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






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






12. Shelter construction






13. 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






14. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






15. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






16. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






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






19. Banknote in Tang Dynasty China - The banknote was first developed in China during the Tang and Song dynasties - starting in the 7th century. Its roots were in merchant receipts of deposit during the Tang Dynasty (618






20. 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






21. Friction Match - John Walker






22. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






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






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






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






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






27. Spears in Germany






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






29. 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






30. 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






31. 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






32. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard






33. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






34. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






35. 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






36. Cloth woven from flax fiber






37. Flute in Germany






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






39. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






40. 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






41. Noria in Roman Empire






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






43. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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45. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






47. 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.






48. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






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






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