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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Flute in Germany






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






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






5. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






7. 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






8. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






9. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






10. 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






11. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






13. 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






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






15. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






16. Shelter construction






17. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






18. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






19. 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






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






21. Twisted rope






22. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






23. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






24. Burial






25. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






26. 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






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






28. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






29. Shelter construction






30. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






31. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






32. 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






33. 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






34. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






35. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)






36. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






37. 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






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






39. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






40. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






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






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






43. 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






44. Fire and then cooking






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






48. 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






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






50. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy