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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1801
2nd c. BC
2. Flute in Germany
Early 3rd c. BC
1742
35 ka
36 ka
3. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
c. 240 BC
1995
c. 480 BC
1742
4. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1985
1804
1878
December 20 - 1951
5. Crane in Ancient Greece
1990
1733
c. 515 BC
1088
6. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
400 ka
400 ka
1480s
1712
7. 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
5th c. BC
1985
28 ka
1st c. BC
8. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1878
1764
5th c. BC
1.8 million years ago
9. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1958-59
1494
1804
10. 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
1804
2nd c.
1888
11. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
2nd c. BC
1804
1733
1742
12. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
563
1st c.
2nd c.
7th c.
13. 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
2nd c. BC
2nd c. BC
36 ka
1990
14. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
2nd
9th c.
1801
1801
15. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
Late 3rd c.
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
400 ka
After 205 BC
16. Shelter construction
1560
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1494
1804
17. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
400 ka
1.8 million years ago
1420s
18. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
14th c.
1801
1826
19. 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
1764
1st c.
9th c.
1800-01
20. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
21. Twisted rope
1804
2nd c. BC
1888
28 ka
22. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
672
16 ka
Late 3rd c.
1804
23. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
7th c.
1742
Ca. 300
1958-59
24. Burial
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1282
160
1877
25. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1764
4th
Early 3rd c. BC
1480s
26. 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
1712
c. 480 BC
1985
Early 3rd c. BC
27. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
December 20 - 1951
1802
Late 3rd c.
1286
28. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
1420s
2nd c. BC
1088
1st c. BC
29. Shelter construction
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1977
1717
1480s
30. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1877
1709
2nd c. BC
1st c. BC
31. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
36 ka
c. 240 BC
408
1709
32. 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
1480s
1977
1088
160
33. 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
60 ka
c. 515 BC
c. 240 BC
34. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire
Late 3rd
1804
c. 480 BC
After 205 BC
35. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
1990
1709
1605
1802
36. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1995
1119
1877
35 ka
37. 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
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
1878
1990
38. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1605
1804
1560
After 205 BC
39. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
2nd c. BC
1470s
1709
1420s
40. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1560
200 ka
7th c.
c. 240 BC
41. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1.8 million years ago
160
1st c.
1958-59
42. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
c. 240 BC
1605
1282
Early 3rd c. BC
43. 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
9th c.
Before 421 BC
5th/6th c.
400 ka
44. Fire and then cooking
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
160
160
1.8 million years ago
45. 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.
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
1877
1712
46. 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.
1878
Late 3rd
1494
36 ka
47. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1st
2nd
1480s
48. 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
Before 421 BC
1801
1915
1420s
49. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1826
1878
1800-01
7th c.
50. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
16 ka
1470s
Ca. 300
5th/6th c.