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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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






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






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






4. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






9. 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.






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






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






12. Shelter construction






13. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






15. 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






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






17. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






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






19. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






20. Bow






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






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






23. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






24. Pigments in Zambia






25. Shelter construction






26. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)






27. Burial






28. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






29. Friction Match - John Walker






30. Fire and then cooking






31. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






32. 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.






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






34. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire






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






36. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire






37. Spears in Germany






38. 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






39. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






40. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire






41. Crane in Ancient Greece






42. 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






43. 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.






44. 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






45. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






46. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






47. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






48. Crane in Ancient Greece






49. Eyeglasses in Italy






50. 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