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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Friction Match - John Walker






3. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283






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






5. Cloth woven from flax fiber






6. Glue in Italy






7. Flute in Germany






8. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Twisted rope






14. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






16. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






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






19. 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






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






21. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






22. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






23. Crane in Ancient Greece






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






25. 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






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






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






28. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






29. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






30. Fire and then cooking






31. 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






32. 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






33. Spears in Germany






34. 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.






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






36. 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






37. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






39. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






40. Flute in Germany






41. 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






42. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






43. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. 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






48. Pottery






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50. Eyeglasses in Italy