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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






2. 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






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






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






5. Printing press in Mainz - Germany - The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440 - based on existing screw presses. The first confirmed record of a press appeared in a 1439 lawsuit against Gutenberg.






6. Friction Match - John Walker






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






8. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






9. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






10. 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






11. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






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






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






14. 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






15. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick






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






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






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






19. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






20. Glue in Italy






21. Cloth woven from flax fiber






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






23. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






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






26. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






27. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently






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






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






30. 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






31. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221






32. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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






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38. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






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






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






43. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






44. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






45. 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






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






47. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






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






49. Crane in Ancient Greece






50. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece