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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. 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.






2. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






3. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






4. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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






6. Pigments in Zambia






7. Burial






8. Flute in Germany






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






10. Pigments in Zambia






11. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283






12. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic






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






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






15. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






16. 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






17. Numerical zero in Ancient India - The concept of zero as a number - and not merely a symbol for separation is attributed toIndia. In India - practical calculations were carried out using zero - which was treated like any other number by the 9th centu






18. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






19. 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






20. 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






21. 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






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






23. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






24. Eyeglasses in Italy






25. 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






26. 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






27. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire






28. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather






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






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






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






32. Shelter construction






33. Burial






34. 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






35. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






36. Twisted rope






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.






42. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






43. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






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






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






46. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire






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






48. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






49. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic






50. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick