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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






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






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






4. 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






5. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






6. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






7. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






8. 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.






9. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






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






11. Burial






12. Flute in Germany






13. Shelter construction






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






15. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






16. Pottery






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. 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.






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






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26. Bow






27. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






29. 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






30. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






31. Pottery






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






33. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






35. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






37. Flute in Germany






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






39. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






40. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






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






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






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






45. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






46. 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






47. Glue in Italy






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






49. 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






50. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick