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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1494
1717
5th/6th c.
1560
2. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1494
1888
5th c. BC
2nd c. BC
3. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
1990
1st c.
200 ka
5th c. BC
4. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
5th/6th c.
408
1804
Late 3rd c.
5. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
200 ka
60 ka
1801
1915
6. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
2nd c. BC
1915
1804
1764
7. 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
1958-59
1742
1804
5th c. BC
8. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
35 ka
1733
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1877
9. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
7th c.
1605
1st c. BC
1878
10. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
563
1.8 million years ago
1802
1801
11. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
672
1560
1st c. BC
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
12. 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
1480s
1733
1995
13. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
672
14th c.
1480s
After 205 BC
14. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1088
1742
400 ka
1282
15. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
Late 3rd c.
9th c.
1st
1712
16. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1480s
1712
1878
9th c.
17. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
1802
35 ka
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
2nd c. BC
18. Pigments in Zambia
1878
400 ka
9th c.
2nd c. BC
19. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
5th c. BC
2nd
2nd c. BC
20. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
1st c.
1st c. BC
2nd c.
14th c.
21. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
400 ka
1st c.
1804
2nd c. BC
22. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
563
28 ka
400 ka
60 ka
23. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
1801
9th c.
1st c.
Early 3rd c. BC
24. Bow
Ca. 300
60 ka
5th c. BC
408
25. Banknote in Tang Dynasty China - The banknote was first developed in China during the Tang and Song dynasties - starting in the 7th century. Its roots were in merchant receipts of deposit during the Tang Dynasty (618
7th c.
408
1560
c. 480 BC
26. Arch-gravity dam (e.g. PuyForadado Dam or Kasserine Dam) in Roman Empire
1605
500 thousand years ago (ka)
2nd
200 ka
27. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
5th c. BC
c. 515 BC
c. 480 BC
Early 3rd c. BC
28. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
Early 3rd c. BC
1800-01
1712
1742
29. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece
1119
1494
5th c. BC
2nd c. BC
30. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
408
1470s
1804
5th c. BC
31. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
4th
563
1826
1st c. BC
32. Spears in Germany
5th/6th c.
400 ka
5th c. BC
1733
33. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
1st c. BC
c. 240 BC
2nd c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
34. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
200 ka
1420s
1801
400 ka
35. Pottery
60 ka
1470s
Ca. 300
16 ka
36. Pigments in Zambia
14th c.
1804
400 ka
36 ka
37. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1717
14th c.
5th c. BC
4th
38. 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
9th c.
1915
1439
2nd
39. 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
408
2nd c. BC
Ca. 300
1990
40. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
60 ka
3rd c. BC
28 ka
41. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire
14th c.
Ca. 300
After 205 BC
Late 3rd c.
42. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
28 ka
1764
1.8 million years ago
c. 240 BC
43. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1915
2nd c.
1470s
44. 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
1088
Early 3rd c. BC
1119
December 20 - 1951
45. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1915
December 20 - 1951
1995
1878
46. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1480s
200 ka
1742
Early 3rd c. BC
47. Glue in Italy
1990
200 ka
Early 3rd c. BC
c. 515 BC
48. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1804
60 ka
563
1888
49. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1733
60 ka
16 ka
1282
50. Fire and then cooking
1282
60 ka
1877
1.8 million years ago