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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






2. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






3. 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






4. 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.






5. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily






6. Pottery






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






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






9. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho






10. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






13. 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






14. Burial






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






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






17. Shelter construction






18. Noria in Roman Empire






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. Water wheel in Hellenistic kingdoms described by Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280






21. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






22. Fire and then cooking






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






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






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






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






27. Buttress dam in Roman Empire






28. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC






29. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






30. 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.






31. 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






32. 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






33. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire






34. Lateen sail in Roman Empire






35. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






36. Spears in Germany






37. 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






38. Fore-and-aft rig (spritsail) in Ancient Greece






39. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






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






41. 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






42. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






43. 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






44. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire






45. Bow






46. 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.






47. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily






48. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.






49. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






50. Lateen sail in Roman Empire