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Timeline Of Historic Inventions

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






2. Shelter construction






3. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.






4. 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






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






6. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






7. Noria in Roman Empire






8. Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli






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






10. 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.






11. 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






12. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






13. Crankshaft in Augusta Raurica - Roman Empire






14. Pottery






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






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






17. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






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






19. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






20. Pigments in Zambia






21. 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






22. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






23. Twisted rope






24. Burial






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






26. Crank motion (rotary quern) in Celtiberian Spain






27. Arc lamp - Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)






28. Pottery






29. The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison






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. Brace in Flandres - Holy Roman Empire






32. Wheelbarrow in Attica - Ancient Greece






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.






34. 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






35. Noria in Roman Empire






36. Catapult in Ancient Greece (incl. Sicily)






37. Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa






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






39. Spears in Germany






40. Sakia gear in Hellenistic Egypt






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






42. Turbine in Africa (province) - Roman Empire






43. Mechanization of papermaking (paper mill) in X






44. 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






45. Fire and then cooking






46. Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.






47. 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






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






49. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.






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