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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Flute in Germany
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1480s
1733
35 ka
2. Spears in Germany
1439
400 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
1804
3. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
5th c. BC
1286
1804
Late 3rd c.
4. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
1995
1282
672
Late 3rd c.
5. 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
1958-59
4th
1088
3rd c. BC
6. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
2nd
Late 3rd
1822
Late 3rd c.
7. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
1995
16 ka
1800-01
c. 240 BC
8. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
2nd c. BC
5th/6th c.
1878
9th c.
9. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
1st c. BC
1.8 million years ago
Early 3rd c. BC
2nd c. BC
10. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
160
1800-01
1888
5th/6th c.
11. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1804
5th c. BC
1282
1764
12. Pigments in Zambia
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
9th c.
400 ka
13. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1286
1420s
Late 3rd
563
14. Burial
1977
Early 3rd c. BC
160
5th c. BC
15. Fire and then cooking
1.8 million years ago
500 thousand years ago (ka)
After 205 BC
1804
16. 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
1878
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
35 ka
17. S
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1717
1995
c. 515 BC
18. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
1st
1470s
2nd
500 thousand years ago (ka)
19. Burial
160
1119
1877
1088
20. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
Before 421 BC
1605
1st c. BC
December 20 - 1951
21. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1958-59
1877
1804
c. 515 BC
22. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
1878
Late 3rd
408
1420s
23. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
408
1709
1712
2nd c.
24. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
2nd c. BC
14th c.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
28 ka
25. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1560
4th
1st c. BC
400 ka
26. Pigments in Zambia
400 ka
1764
1985
200 ka
27. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1804
1605
1119
1977
28. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
60 ka
1733
1st c.
1119
29. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
2nd
1958-59
200 ka
1st c.
30. S
1990
1119
1878
1717
31. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
Ca. 300
Late 3rd c.
1420s
408
32. 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
36 ka
1822
400 ka
1282
33. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1802
28 ka
14th c.
1119
34. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1915
1878
2nd c. BC
1st
35. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1915
1915
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
36. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1282
1st c. BC
1764
672
37. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
December 20 - 1951
7th c.
5th c. BC
38. 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.
Late 3rd
5th/6th c.
5th c. BC
1286
39. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
60 ka
1804
Late 3rd c.
1709
40. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
3rd c. BC
5th/6th c.
1800-01
1802
41. 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
1420s
1742
28 ka
1822
42. 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
14th c.
2nd
7th c.
1977
43. Cloth woven from flax fiber
36 ka
1878
1420s
1804
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
2nd
Ca. 300
1494
1985
45. 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. (or 1st c. BC)
1995
9th c.
1958-59
46. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
2nd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
1804
1802
47. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
28 ka
1470s
c. 480 BC
1560
48. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
2nd
Early 3rd c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
3rd c. BC
49. 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
9th c.
1985
1800-01
563
50. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
14th c.
c. 240 BC
1826
Early 3rd c. BC