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There are many lists of important inventions and technology implementation online. This one is from: Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The past one thousand years:
11th century
1088: Movable type in Song Dynasty 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.[112][113][114][115] In 13th century, Koreans invented a metal type movable printing.[116] In the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg invented the modern movable type system in Europe.[117]
11th century: Fuel coke in Song Dynasty China: By the 11th century, to avoid excessive deforestation, the Song Chinese began using coke made from bituminous coal as fuel for their metallurgic furnaces instead of charcoal derived from wood.[118][119]
12th century[edit]
1119: Mariner's compass (wet compass) in Song Dynasty 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).[114][120][121][122][123][124][125] The typical Chinese navigational compass was in the form of a magnetic needle floating in a bowl of water.[126] The familiar mariner's dry compass which used a pivoting needle suspended above a compass-card in a glass box was invented in medieval Europe no later than 1300.[127]
13th century[edit]
1277: Land mine in Song Dynasty China: Textual evidence suggests that the first use of a land mine in history was by a Song Dynasty brigadier general known as Lou Qianxia, who used an 'enormous bomb' (huo pao) to kill Mongol soldiers invading Guangxi in 1277.[128]
1286: Eyeglasses in Italy[129]
13th century: Dominoes in Yuan Dynasty China: The earliest confirmed written mention of dominoes in China comes from the Former Events in Wulin written during the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368).[130] Dominoes first appeared in Italy during the 18th century, and although it is unknown how Chinese dominoes developed into the modern game, it is speculated that Italian missionaries in China may have brought the game to Europe.[131]
13th century: Explosive bomb in Jin Dynasty Manchuria: Explosive bombs were used in 1221 by the Jin Dynasty against a Song Dynasty city.[132] The first accounts of bombs made of cast iron shells packed with explosive gunpowder are documented in the 13th century in China and were called "thunder-crash bombs,"[133] coined during a Jin Dynasty naval battle in 1231.[134]
13th century: Hand cannon in Yuan Dynasty China: The earliest hand cannon dates to the 13th century based on archaeological evidence from a Heilongjiang excavation. There is also written evidence in the Yuanshi (1370) on Li Tang, an ethnic Jurchen commander under the Yuan Dynasty who in 1288 suppressed the rebellion of the Christian prince Nayan with his "gun-soldiers" or chongzu, this being the earliest known event where this phrase was used.[135]
14th century[edit]
14th century: Naval mine in Ming Dynasty China: Mentioned in the Huolongjing military manuscript written by Jiao Yu (fl. 14th to early 15th century) and Liu Ji (1311–1375), describing naval mines used at sea or on rivers and lakes, made of wrought iron and enclosed in an ox bladder. A later model is documented in Song Yingxing's encyclopedia written in 1637.[136]
15th century[edit]
The oldest known parachute is depicted in this anonymous Italian manuscript dated to the 1470s.[137]
1420s: Brace in Flandres, Holy Roman Empire[137]
1439: 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.[138]
1470s: Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy[139]
1480s: Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa[140]
1494: Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
16th century[edit]
1560 Floating dock in Venice, Venetian Republic[141]
1569 Mercator Projection map created by Gerardus Mercator
17th century[edit]
A 1609 title page of the German Relation, the world's first newspaper (first published in 1605)[142][143]
1605: Newspaper (Relation): Johann Carolus in Strassburg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)[142][143]
1642: Blaise Pascal built first mechanical calculator: the Pascaline.
18th century[edit]
c. 1700: Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano
1709: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer .
1712: Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines.[144] Newcomen's engine, unlike Thomas Savery's, used a piston.
1733: Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.[citation needed]
1742: Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.[citation needed]
1745: Musschenbroek and Kleist independently developed Leyden jar, an early form of capacitor.
1764: James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1769: James Watt invents the improved steam engine utilizing a separate condenser.
19th century[edit]
1800s[edit]
1800: Voltaic pile: an early form of battery by Alessandro Volta in Italy, based on previous works by Luigi Galvani.
1802: Arc lamp: Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)[145]
1804: Morphine in Paderborn, Germany: Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner.[146]
1804: Railway steam locomotive: Richard Trevithick[147]
1820s[edit]
1822: 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 for 42 years, the record for any U.S. patent.[148][149]
1826: The friction Match is invented by John Walker[150]
1830s[edit]
1831: Michael Faraday and Joseph Henry independently of each other invented methods of Electromagnetic induction.
1837: Charles Babbage designed the first general purpose Computer named Analytical Engine(which was actually only partially built).
1838: Samuel Morse invents Morse Code.
1839: James Nasmyth invents the steam hammer.
1850s[edit]
1856: Refrigeration: Using the principle of vapour compression, James Harrison produced the world's first practical ice making machine and refrigerator in Geelong, Australia.[151]
1870s[edit]
1873: Crookes radiometer: Invented by the chemist Sir William Crookes as the by-product of some chemical research.
1876: Telephone: A patent for the telephone is granted to Alexander Graham Bell. However, others inventors before Bell had worked on the development of the telephone and the invention had several pioneers.[152]
1877: The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison.[153]
1878: Rebreather: Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather[154]
1879 Thomas Edison produced the first practical bulb and was granted a U.S. patent.
1880s[edit]
1886: Process for economically producing Aluminum invented by Charles Martin Hall and independently by Paul Héroult in 1886.
1886 Frank Julian Sprague invents the first practical DC electric motor. In 1887 he uses it to build the Richmond Union Passenger Railway, the first successful (and widely copied) large electric street trolley (tram) system.
1888: Wind turbines for grid electricity invented by Charles F. Brush in 1888.
20th century[edit]
1903: First manually controlled, fixed wing, motorized aircraft takes place in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina by Orville and Wilbur Wright. First modern fixed wing aircraft. 1901: Gustave Weisskopf (Whitehead), a German-American immigrant, is credited with motorized aircraft flight in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Flights were witnessed by citizens and other associates, were recorded in the Bridgeport Herald, a local newspaper, and were the subject of a 1904 article in Scientific American. In 2013 Jane's All The World's Aircraft recognized Whitehead as first to make a manned, powered, controlled flight.
1910s[edit]
1915: The tank was invented by Ernest Swinton,[155] 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 steered and carry heavy loads over rough ground and trenches' complete with extensive drawings in 1912[156]
1920s[edit]
1928: Penicillin was first observed to exude antibiotic substances by Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming. Development of medicinal penicillin is attributed to a team of medics and scientists including Howard Walter Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley.
1930s[edit]
1938: Z1 built by Konrad Zuse was the first freely programmable computer in the world.
1938, December: Nuclear fission discovered in experiment by Otto Hahn (**** Germany), coined by Lise Meitner (fled to Sweden from ****-occupied Austria) and Fritz Strassman (Sweden). The Manhattan Project, and consequently the Soviet atomic bomb project were begun based on this research, as well as the German nuclear energy project, although the latter one declined as its physicists were drafted into Germany's war effort.
1940s[edit]
1942: The V-2 rocket, the world's first long range ballistic missile, developed in **** Germany during World War II.
July 1945: The atomic bomb was first successfully developed by the United States, Britain and Canada as a part of the Manhattan Project and swiftly deployed in August 1945 in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively causing the end of World War II.
December 1947: The Transistor, used in almost all modern electronic products was invented in December 1947 by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain under the supervision of William Shockley. Subsequent transistors became steadily smaller, faster, more reliable, and cheaper to manufacture, leading to a revolution in computers, controls, and communication.
1947 Floyd Farris and J.B. Clark (Stanolind Oil and Gas Corporation) invented hydraulic fracturing technology.[157]
1950s-1960s[edit]
December 20, 1951: First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco, Idaho[158][159]
1954: Invention of Solar Battery by Bell Telephone scientists, Calvin Souther Fuller, Daryl Chapin and Gerald Pearson capturing the sun's power. First practical means of collecting energy from the sun and turning it into a current of electricity.
1955: The intermodal container was developed by Malcom McLean.
1957: The first PC used by one person and controlled by a keyboard, the IBM 610 was invented in 1957 by IBM.
1958-59: Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1958-60: The LASER.
1969: ARPANET first deployed via UCLA, SRI, UCSB, and The University of Utah.
1970s[edit]
1972: The first video game console, used primarily for playing video games on a TV, is the Magnavox Odyssey.[160]
1973: The first commercial graphical user interface was introduced in 1973 on the Xerox Alto. The modern GUI was later popularized by the Xerox Star and Apple Lisa.
1975: Altair 8800 was the spark that ignited the microcomputer revolution.
1973-75: The Internet protocol suite was developed by Vinton Cerf and Robert E. Kahn for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ARPANET, creating the basis for the modern Internet.
1980s[edit]
1982: A CD-ROM contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 Yellow Book standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data.[161]
1990s[edit]
1990:The World Wide Web was first introduced to the public by English engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[162][163]
1993: MOSAIC, the first popular web browser is introduced
1995: 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.
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Here is another list of 20 significant inventions in the 20th Century.
20th Century Technology - Photo Essays - TIME
The past one thousand years:
11th century
1088: Movable type in Song Dynasty 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.[112][113][114][115] In 13th century, Koreans invented a metal type movable printing.[116] In the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg invented the modern movable type system in Europe.[117]
11th century: Fuel coke in Song Dynasty China: By the 11th century, to avoid excessive deforestation, the Song Chinese began using coke made from bituminous coal as fuel for their metallurgic furnaces instead of charcoal derived from wood.[118][119]
12th century[edit]
1119: Mariner's compass (wet compass) in Song Dynasty 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).[114][120][121][122][123][124][125] The typical Chinese navigational compass was in the form of a magnetic needle floating in a bowl of water.[126] The familiar mariner's dry compass which used a pivoting needle suspended above a compass-card in a glass box was invented in medieval Europe no later than 1300.[127]
13th century[edit]
1277: Land mine in Song Dynasty China: Textual evidence suggests that the first use of a land mine in history was by a Song Dynasty brigadier general known as Lou Qianxia, who used an 'enormous bomb' (huo pao) to kill Mongol soldiers invading Guangxi in 1277.[128]
1286: Eyeglasses in Italy[129]
13th century: Dominoes in Yuan Dynasty China: The earliest confirmed written mention of dominoes in China comes from the Former Events in Wulin written during the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368).[130] Dominoes first appeared in Italy during the 18th century, and although it is unknown how Chinese dominoes developed into the modern game, it is speculated that Italian missionaries in China may have brought the game to Europe.[131]
13th century: Explosive bomb in Jin Dynasty Manchuria: Explosive bombs were used in 1221 by the Jin Dynasty against a Song Dynasty city.[132] The first accounts of bombs made of cast iron shells packed with explosive gunpowder are documented in the 13th century in China and were called "thunder-crash bombs,"[133] coined during a Jin Dynasty naval battle in 1231.[134]
13th century: Hand cannon in Yuan Dynasty China: The earliest hand cannon dates to the 13th century based on archaeological evidence from a Heilongjiang excavation. There is also written evidence in the Yuanshi (1370) on Li Tang, an ethnic Jurchen commander under the Yuan Dynasty who in 1288 suppressed the rebellion of the Christian prince Nayan with his "gun-soldiers" or chongzu, this being the earliest known event where this phrase was used.[135]
14th century[edit]
14th century: Naval mine in Ming Dynasty China: Mentioned in the Huolongjing military manuscript written by Jiao Yu (fl. 14th to early 15th century) and Liu Ji (1311–1375), describing naval mines used at sea or on rivers and lakes, made of wrought iron and enclosed in an ox bladder. A later model is documented in Song Yingxing's encyclopedia written in 1637.[136]
15th century[edit]
The oldest known parachute is depicted in this anonymous Italian manuscript dated to the 1470s.[137]
1420s: Brace in Flandres, Holy Roman Empire[137]
1439: 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.[138]
1470s: Parachute (with frame) in Renaissance Italy[139]
1480s: Mariner's astrolabe on Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa[140]
1494: Double-entry bookkeeping system codified by Luca Pacioli
16th century[edit]
1560 Floating dock in Venice, Venetian Republic[141]
1569 Mercator Projection map created by Gerardus Mercator
17th century[edit]
A 1609 title page of the German Relation, the world's first newspaper (first published in 1605)[142][143]
1605: Newspaper (Relation): Johann Carolus in Strassburg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (see also List of the oldest newspapers)[142][143]
1642: Blaise Pascal built first mechanical calculator: the Pascaline.
18th century[edit]
c. 1700: Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano
1709: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer .
1712: Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines.[144] Newcomen's engine, unlike Thomas Savery's, used a piston.
1733: Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.[citation needed]
1742: Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.[citation needed]
1745: Musschenbroek and Kleist independently developed Leyden jar, an early form of capacitor.
1764: James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.
1769: James Watt invents the improved steam engine utilizing a separate condenser.
19th century[edit]
1800s[edit]
1800: Voltaic pile: an early form of battery by Alessandro Volta in Italy, based on previous works by Luigi Galvani.
1802: Arc lamp: Humphry Davy (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until generators)[145]
1804: Morphine in Paderborn, Germany: Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner.[146]
1804: Railway steam locomotive: Richard Trevithick[147]
1820s[edit]
1822: 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 for 42 years, the record for any U.S. patent.[148][149]
1826: The friction Match is invented by John Walker[150]
1830s[edit]
1831: Michael Faraday and Joseph Henry independently of each other invented methods of Electromagnetic induction.
1837: Charles Babbage designed the first general purpose Computer named Analytical Engine(which was actually only partially built).
1838: Samuel Morse invents Morse Code.
1839: James Nasmyth invents the steam hammer.
1850s[edit]
1856: Refrigeration: Using the principle of vapour compression, James Harrison produced the world's first practical ice making machine and refrigerator in Geelong, Australia.[151]
1870s[edit]
1873: Crookes radiometer: Invented by the chemist Sir William Crookes as the by-product of some chemical research.
1876: Telephone: A patent for the telephone is granted to Alexander Graham Bell. However, others inventors before Bell had worked on the development of the telephone and the invention had several pioneers.[152]
1877: The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison.[153]
1878: Rebreather: Henry Fleuss was granted a patent for the first practical rebreather[154]
1879 Thomas Edison produced the first practical bulb and was granted a U.S. patent.
1880s[edit]
1886: Process for economically producing Aluminum invented by Charles Martin Hall and independently by Paul Héroult in 1886.
1886 Frank Julian Sprague invents the first practical DC electric motor. In 1887 he uses it to build the Richmond Union Passenger Railway, the first successful (and widely copied) large electric street trolley (tram) system.
1888: Wind turbines for grid electricity invented by Charles F. Brush in 1888.
20th century[edit]
1903: First manually controlled, fixed wing, motorized aircraft takes place in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina by Orville and Wilbur Wright. First modern fixed wing aircraft. 1901: Gustave Weisskopf (Whitehead), a German-American immigrant, is credited with motorized aircraft flight in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Flights were witnessed by citizens and other associates, were recorded in the Bridgeport Herald, a local newspaper, and were the subject of a 1904 article in Scientific American. In 2013 Jane's All The World's Aircraft recognized Whitehead as first to make a manned, powered, controlled flight.
1910s[edit]
1915: The tank was invented by Ernest Swinton,[155] 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 steered and carry heavy loads over rough ground and trenches' complete with extensive drawings in 1912[156]
1920s[edit]
1928: Penicillin was first observed to exude antibiotic substances by Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming. Development of medicinal penicillin is attributed to a team of medics and scientists including Howard Walter Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley.
1930s[edit]
1938: Z1 built by Konrad Zuse was the first freely programmable computer in the world.
1938, December: Nuclear fission discovered in experiment by Otto Hahn (**** Germany), coined by Lise Meitner (fled to Sweden from ****-occupied Austria) and Fritz Strassman (Sweden). The Manhattan Project, and consequently the Soviet atomic bomb project were begun based on this research, as well as the German nuclear energy project, although the latter one declined as its physicists were drafted into Germany's war effort.
1940s[edit]
1942: The V-2 rocket, the world's first long range ballistic missile, developed in **** Germany during World War II.
July 1945: The atomic bomb was first successfully developed by the United States, Britain and Canada as a part of the Manhattan Project and swiftly deployed in August 1945 in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively causing the end of World War II.
December 1947: The Transistor, used in almost all modern electronic products was invented in December 1947 by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain under the supervision of William Shockley. Subsequent transistors became steadily smaller, faster, more reliable, and cheaper to manufacture, leading to a revolution in computers, controls, and communication.
1947 Floyd Farris and J.B. Clark (Stanolind Oil and Gas Corporation) invented hydraulic fracturing technology.[157]
1950s-1960s[edit]
December 20, 1951: First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households in Arco, Idaho[158][159]
1954: Invention of Solar Battery by Bell Telephone scientists, Calvin Souther Fuller, Daryl Chapin and Gerald Pearson capturing the sun's power. First practical means of collecting energy from the sun and turning it into a current of electricity.
1955: The intermodal container was developed by Malcom McLean.
1957: The first PC used by one person and controlled by a keyboard, the IBM 610 was invented in 1957 by IBM.
1958-59: Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1958-60: The LASER.
1969: ARPANET first deployed via UCLA, SRI, UCSB, and The University of Utah.
1970s[edit]
1972: The first video game console, used primarily for playing video games on a TV, is the Magnavox Odyssey.[160]
1973: The first commercial graphical user interface was introduced in 1973 on the Xerox Alto. The modern GUI was later popularized by the Xerox Star and Apple Lisa.
1975: Altair 8800 was the spark that ignited the microcomputer revolution.
1973-75: The Internet protocol suite was developed by Vinton Cerf and Robert E. Kahn for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ARPANET, creating the basis for the modern Internet.
1980s[edit]
1982: A CD-ROM contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 Yellow Book standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data.[161]
1990s[edit]
1990:The World Wide Web was first introduced to the public by English engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[162][163]
1993: MOSAIC, the first popular web browser is introduced
1995: 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.
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Here is another list of 20 significant inventions in the 20th Century.
20th Century Technology - Photo Essays - TIME
