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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. 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






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






4. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






5. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






6. Friction Match - John Walker






7. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily






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






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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






13. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






14. Pottery






15. Pottery






16. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






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






18. Eyeglasses in Italy






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






20. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






21. Glue in Italy






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






29. 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.






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






31. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






32. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






33. Burial






34. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






36. Glue in Italy






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






38. 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






39. 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






40. Noria in Roman Empire






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






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






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






44. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






45. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






46. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






47. Spears in Germany






48. Noria in Roman Empire






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






50. Crane in Ancient Greece