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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Noria in Roman Empire
1764
Ca. 300
1480s
Late 3rd
2. 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
Late 3rd
9th c.
2nd c. BC
36 ka
3. 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
c. 515 BC
672
1958-59
160
4. 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
1915
1560
36 ka
2nd c. BC
5. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1878
1804
1439
1282
6. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
1822
2nd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
28 ka
7. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
1804
2nd
Before 421 BC
c. 240 BC
8. A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or customized computer system that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device (a television - monitor - etc.) to display a video game. The term 'video game con
1977
36 ka
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1995
9. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
1804
35 ka
1915
3rd c. BC
10. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
2nd c.
1958-59
1286
14th c.
11. 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
1822
1742
1st c. BC
5th c. BC
12. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
500 thousand years ago (ka)
Early 3rd c. BC
400 ka
c. 240 BC
13. Cloth woven from flax fiber
1733
36 ka
28 ka
1800-01
14. Burial
160
1st c.
7th c.
400 ka
15. 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
1878
December 20 - 1951
Early 3rd c. BC
1985
16. Pigments in Zambia
1560
2nd c. BC
400 ka
1119
17. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
c. 240 BC
Before 421 BC
1985
1977
18. Pottery
2nd c. BC
1985
2nd c.
16 ka
19. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
1717
9th c.
1st c. BC
2nd c. BC
20. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
2nd c.
36 ka
Before 421 BC
1560
21. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1877
1977
2nd c. BC
1822
22. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
2nd c.
December 20 - 1951
1420s
1439
23. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
5th c. BC
1st c. BC
1804
28 ka
24. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
Early 3rd c. BC
1800-01
1282
1742
25. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
1742
5th c. BC
200 ka
c. 515 BC
26. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1470s
5th/6th c.
1088
1764
27. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1088
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1560
1605
28. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
1764
Early 3rd c. BC
1888
14th c.
29. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
408
Ca. 300
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1470s
30. 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
1764
Ca. 300
5th c. BC
1733
31. Glue in Italy
2nd
c. 240 BC
1712
200 ka
32. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1985
1088
1764
5th c. BC
33. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1800-01
December 20 - 1951
200 ka
1709
34. 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
1995
1990
1st c.
9th c.
35. 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
1985
1088
1801
c. 480 BC
36. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
2nd c.
1742
400 ka
1286
37. Noria in Roman Empire
1119
28 ka
Ca. 300
400 ka
38. Bow
1800-01
60 ka
1804
36 ka
39. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
Early 3rd c. BC
160
1877
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
40. 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
672
2nd c. BC
1804
1494
41. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
5th/6th c.
1801
400 ka
1764
42. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1470s
408
4th
200 ka
43. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
5th c. BC
400 ka
1470s
60 ka
44. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
60 ka
16 ka
1.8 million years ago
1804
45. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
1878
9th c.
1119
Early 3rd c. BC
46. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
28 ka
1804
1.8 million years ago
Late 3rd c.
47. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
5th c. BC
1st
1958-59
5th c. BC
48. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Late 3rd
1888
400 ka
c. 515 BC
49. Burial
1985
160
200 ka
408
50. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1733
December 20 - 1951
1800-01
9th c.