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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Pottery
16 ka
1480s
2nd c. BC
563
2. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1st c.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
36 ka
1605
3. 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.
2nd c. BC
1985
36 ka
1995
4. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1470s
1826
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
5. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
1439
1995
1878
6. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1888
5th/6th c.
1709
1802
7. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
1801
1st c. BC
1470s
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
8. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1712
1804
400 ka
1822
9. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1st c.
9th c.
1.8 million years ago
1712
10. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1888
14th c.
1282
1877
11. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
c. 480 BC
1st c.
c. 240 BC
1764
12. 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
5th/6th c.
1800-01
1.8 million years ago
1822
13. Crane in Ancient Greece
1282
400 ka
c. 515 BC
1480s
14. Flute in Germany
1286
35 ka
1822
1826
15. Friction Match - John Walker
9th c.
5th c. BC
1826
Late 3rd c.
16. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1802
December 20 - 1951
Early 3rd c. BC
35 ka
17. 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
1990
1286
35 ka
1709
18. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1717
1st c. BC
1470s
1st c. BC
19. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
4th
1977
9th c.
20. Pigments in Zambia
400 ka
1st c. BC
1822
1801
21. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1709
Ca. 300
9th c.
1985
22. Spears in Germany
1439
5th c. BC
400 ka
1888
23. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1470s
After 205 BC
16 ka
9th c.
24. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1800-01
Early 3rd c. BC
36 ka
After 205 BC
25. Burial
28 ka
1990
160
1st c. BC
26. Shelter construction
35 ka
160
9th c.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
27. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1733
1800-01
2nd c. BC
2nd c.
28. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
1802
2nd
1439
1822
29. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)
Before 421 BC
1088
2nd c. BC
1995
30. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
1st
1742
1733
9th c.
31. Spears in Germany
400 ka
200 ka
3rd c. BC
1888
32. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
Early 3rd c. BC
1494
1985
33. Fire and then cooking
c. 480 BC
1st c.
1.8 million years ago
16 ka
34. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
1717
c. 480 BC
1st c.
1420s
35. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1709
5th/6th c.
1st c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
36. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
160
2nd c. BC
1878
1282
37. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
3rd c. BC
1494
1958-59
5th c. BC
38. 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
1.8 million years ago
1801
c. 480 BC
9th c.
39. Noria in Roman Empire
1804
2nd c. BC
35 ka
Ca. 300
40. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
7th c.
1st c. BC
400 ka
1420s
41. 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.
1878
1985
Late 3rd
2nd c. BC
42. 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
5th c. BC
1088
9th c.
2nd c.
43. Glue in Italy
200 ka
1420s
1494
Before 421 BC
44. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
1494
1st c. BC
408
Early 3rd c. BC
45. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1st c.
1420s
408
36 ka
46. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
4th
16 ka
563
2nd c. BC
47. 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
7th c.
1888
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd
48. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
2nd
1.8 million years ago
1804
1995
49. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1560
1733
1878
1st c.
50. 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
400 ka
5th c. BC
Before 421 BC
1119