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Timeline Of Historic Inventions
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1. 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
After 205 BC
1995
1888
1800-01
2. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1st c. BC
1560
c. 480 BC
3. Buttress dam in Roman Empire
c. 240 BC
1st
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
1712
4. Arch dam (Glanum Dam) in Gallia Narbonensis - Roman Republic (see also List of Roman dams)
672
After 205 BC
1st c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
5. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
1st
5th/6th c.
1822
1990
6. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire
1420s
1802
1605
1877
7. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
500 thousand years ago (ka)
35 ka
400 ka
1802
8. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
Early 3rd c. BC
1985
1877
9. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain
2nd c. BC
1st c. BC
2nd c. BC
5th c. BC
10. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
28 ka
1958-59
1709
1801
11. Dry dock some time after Ptolemy IV (221
1439
200 ka
7th c.
After 205 BC
12. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
Before 421 BC
December 20 - 1951
5th c. BC
c. 515 BC
13. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
5th c. BC
After 205 BC
1822
1709
14. Crank and connecting rod (Hierapolis sawmill) in Asia Minor - Roman Empire
Late 3rd c.
Late 3rd
1800-01
400 ka
15. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy
1088
1995
5th c. BC
1470s
16. First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco - Idaho
1605
December 20 - 1951
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
563
17. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1119
4th
1282
1.8 million years ago
18. Spiral stairs (Temple A) in Selinunte - Sicily (see also List of ancient spiral stairs)
5th c. BC
c. 480 BC
1.8 million years ago
1800-01
19. Multiple arch buttress dam (Esparragalejo Dam) in Hispania - Roman Empire
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1802
672
1st c.
20. 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
2nd
1st c. BC
7th c.
1990
21. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard
1717
Early 3rd c. BC
1801
2nd c. BC
22. Lateen sail in Roman Empire
1764
1878
400 ka
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
23. Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.
1742
1888
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1804
24. High pressure steam engine - Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans - independently
1800-01
1712
1804
1977
25. 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
5th/6th c.
2nd c. BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
26. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1958-59
1977
1802
1733
27. Paper in Ancient China - Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC
2nd c. BC
1826
9th c.
400 ka
28. Papyrus paper invented by ancient Egyptians by interlocking the stems of the Papyrus plant in the lower Nile.
Early 3rd c. BC
c. 480 BC
672
7th c.
29. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt
Early 3rd c. BC
160
2nd c. BC
1822
30. 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
1733
1822
1958-59
1st
31. Twisted rope
1119
Ca. 300
28 ka
1888
32. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
9th c.
1877
5th c. BC
3rd c. BC
33. 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.
1990
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
1878
c. 515 BC
34. Shelter construction
After 205 BC
500 thousand years ago (ka)
1st c.
1990
35. Three-masted ship (mizzen - on Syracusia) under Hiero II of Syracuse - Sicily
After 205 BC
c. 240 BC
160
1088
36. Newspaper (Relation) - Johann Carolus in Strassburg - Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)
1605
14th c.
1733
5th c. BC
37. Morphine in Paderborn - Germany - Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sert
1560
1494
1804
2nd c. BC
38. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic
1990
1560
1801
2nd c. (or 1st c. BC)
39. 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
16 ka
1985
c. 515 BC
9th c.
40. Pigments in Zambia
1826
Before 421 BC
400 ka
Ca. 300
41. Watermill (grain mill) by Greek engineers in Eastern Mediterranean (see also List of ancient watermills)
c. 480 BC
1804
Before 421 BC
Before 71 BC (possibly 3rd c. BC)
42. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)
16 ka
2nd c. BC
400 ka
1802
43. Waterway connecting two seas (Ancient Suez Canal) by Greek engineers under Ptolemy II (283
16 ka
563
1888
Early 3rd c. BC
44. Pendentive dome (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople - Eastern Roman Empire
c. 240 BC
400 ka
563
Early 3rd c. BC
45. Paddle wheel boat (in De rebus bellicis) in Roman Empire
1733
1605
4th
Early 3rd c. BC
46. Spears in Germany
400 ka
7th c.
1480s
28 ka
47. Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy - Roman Republic
7th c.
5th c. BC
1st c. BC
c. 480 BC
48. 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
9th c.
1088
c. 480 BC
35 ka
49. Eyeglasses in Italy
3rd c. BC
1878
1801
1286
50. Pointed arch bridge (Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia - Eastern Roman Empire
5th/6th c.
9th c.
5th c. BC
Late 3rd