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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1802
1800-01
1742
1804
2. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
14th c.
5th/6th c.
1.8 million years ago
Late 3rd
3. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
14th c.
1801
1420s
1st c. BC
4. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1742
400 ka
Late 3rd c.
5. 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
672
5th c. BC
400 ka
1877
6. 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
1709
35 ka
1990
1801
7. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
Early 3rd c. BC
1826
1st c.
5th c. BC
8. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
Before 421 BC
2nd c. BC
1990
1605
9. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire
2nd c. BC
36 ka
2nd c.
1764
10. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
After 205 BC
1878
1st
5th c. BC
11. 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
Ca. 300
5th c. BC
9th c.
1119
12. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
Before 421 BC
200 ka
1st c. BC
2nd c. BC
13. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1st c. BC
1801
1st c. BC
1st
14. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa
1480s
1119
1420s
1977
15. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1709
200 ka
1878
1717
16. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1822
1958-59
1709
c. 480 BC
17. Railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
2nd
c. 515 BC
1822
1804
18. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
1804
563
5th c. BC
Early 3rd c. BC
19. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1470s
200 ka
1877
After 205 BC
20. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1877
1804
After 205 BC
21. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece
Early 3rd c. BC
After 205 BC
4th
408
22. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
c. 480 BC
1802
5th c. BC
28 ka
23. Pottery
1977
1958-59
16 ka
Late 3rd
24. 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
Late 3rd c.
408
1977
9th c.
25. Twisted rope
672
28 ka
1990
1439
26. Friction Match - John Walker
1801
1802
14th c.
1826
27. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
400 ka
2nd c. BC
1470s
408
28. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
1712
28 ka
1282
1733
29. 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.
1st c. BC
1439
1802
160
30. Shelter construction
Early 3rd c. BC
28 ka
2nd c.
500 thousand years ago (ka)
31. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
1878
Before 421 BC
563
1709
32. Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine - unlike Thomas Savery's - used a piston.
Early 3rd c. BC
28 ka
1995
1712
33. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
400 ka
1st c. BC
December 20 - 1951
34. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
1420s
1st
1800-01
Early 3rd c. BC
35. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
1977
1804
1282
1877
36. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
9th c.
5th c. BC
1801
1915
37. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X
1717
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1282
5th/6th c.
38. Glue in Italy
200 ka
9th c.
1826
1977
39. 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
1888
1470s
Early 3rd c. BC
December 20 - 1951
40. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
9th c.
1st
1717
Early 3rd c. BC
41. Rebreather - Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather
1878
1286
36 ka
1420s
42. 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
1733
5th/6th c.
1826
1119
43. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1712
4th
1420s
1709
44. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
1995
9th c.
1560
1494
45. Eyeglasses in Italy
1286
December 20 - 1951
1915
1709
46. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1282
1800-01
1470s
35 ka
47. 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
3rd c. BC
c. 515 BC
672
1800-01
48. Crane in Ancient Greece
c. 480 BC
672
1605
c. 515 BC
49. Canal lock (possibly pound lock) in Ancient Suez Canal under Ptolemy II (283
Early 3rd c. BC
After 205 BC
1826
1990
50. Burial
160
400 ka
1804
16 ka