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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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1. Floating crane in Rhineland - Holy Roman Empire






2. Crane in Ancient Greece






3. 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






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






5. Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy






6. 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






7. Burial






8. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






9. 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






10. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






11. 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.






12. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






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






14. Eyeglasses in Italy






15. 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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






22. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






23. Flute in Germany






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. Twisted rope






26. Fire and then cooking






27. Floating dock in Venice - Venetian Republic






28. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






29. 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






30. 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.






31. 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.






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






33. Cloth woven from flax fiber






34. 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






35. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






36. 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






37. Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.






38. 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.






39. Friction Match - John Walker






40. Glue in Italy






41. Spears in Germany






42. 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






43. 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.






44. Shelter construction






45. Pottery






46. 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






47. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






48. 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






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






50. Jacquard loom (loom controlled by punched card) - Joseph Marie Jacquard