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See also: List of inventors

This is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions.

Note: Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first known working version of the invention is used here.

Paleolithic Era

Main article: Paleolithic

10th millennium BC

9th millennium BC

8th millennium BC

7th millennium BC

6th millennium BC

5th millennium BC

4th millennium BC

3rd millennium BC

2nd millennium BC

1st millennium BC

1st millennium AD

2nd millennium

11th century

12th century

13th century

14th century

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

1800s

1810s

1820s

1830s

1840s

1850s

1860s

1870s

1880s

1890s

20th century

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s


1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

3rd millennium

21st century

2000s

See also

Notes

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Encyclopædia Britannica's Great Inventions, Encyclopædia Britannica
  3. ^ a b Stone age man used dentist drill. BBC News.
  4. ^ "Dashing Finns were first to get their skates on 5,000 years ago". The Times. Retrieved 2007-12-24.
  5. ^ Kryss Katsiavriades and Talaat Qureshi, Inventions - 3000 BC to 2000 BC.
  6. ^ A World of Glass
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i Surgical Instruments from Ancient Rome
  8. ^ a b c d e Roman period surgery set on show, BBC
  9. ^ a b c d Chirurgia, William Alexander Greenhill, M.D., Trinity College, Oxford
  10. ^ The Romans carried out cataract ops, BBC
  11. ^ a b Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (April 1960). "Tibet, India, and Malaya as Sources of Western Medieval Technology", The American Historical Review 65 (3), p. 521.
  12. ^ Inventions 1000 BC to 1 BC
  13. ^ Ancient Greek Inventions
  14. ^ Stone-Hurling Catapult, Greece, 400 BCE
  15. ^ a b Joseph Needham (1986). Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Part 2, p. 361. Taipei: Caves Books, Ltd.
  16. ^ Ancient Roman Inventions
  17. ^ Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (April 1960). "Tibet, India, and Malaya as Sources of Western Medieval Technology", The American Historical Review 65 (3), p. 516.
  18. ^ Roman Inventions
  19. ^ How advanced were the Romans
  20. ^ Paper - one of the most important inventions of the last two millennia
  21. ^ C. Wayne Smith, Joe Tom Cothren (1999). Cotton: Origin, History, Technology, and Production, p. viii. John Wiley and Sons. Technology & Industrial Arts. ISBN 0471180459.
  22. ^ Richard Nelson Frye. Golden Age of Persia, p. 163
  23. ^ a b c Ahmad Y Hassan, Alcohol and the Distillation of Wine in Arabic Sources.
  24. ^ a b c Otto Mayr (1970). The Origins of Feedback Control, MIT Press.
  25. ^ a b Teun Koetsier (2001). "On the prehistory of programmable machines: musical automata, looms, calculators", Mechanism and Machine theory 36, p. 590-591.
  26. ^ a b c d Dr. Kasem Ajram (1992). Miracle of Islamic Science, Appendix B. Knowledge House Publishers. ISBN 0911119434.
  27. ^ The invention of cosmetics. 1001 Inventions.
  28. ^ David A. King, "Islamic Astronomy", in Christopher Walker (1999), ed., Astronomy before the telescope, p. 167-168. British Museum Press. ISBN 0-7141-2733-7.
  29. ^ Ahmad Y Hassan, Donald Routledge Hill (1986). Islamic Technology: An illustrated history, p. 54. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-42239-6.
  30. ^ a b c d e Paul Vallely, How Islamic Inventors Changed the World, The Independent, 11 Mar 2006.
  31. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr Al-Khujandi", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  32. ^ a b Ronald Watkins. Unknown Seas, p. 15.
  33. ^ Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (April 1960). "Tibet, India, and Malaya as Sources of Western Medieval Technology", The American Historical Review 65 (3), p. 519.
  34. ^ a b Fielding H. Garrison, History of Medicine:s themselves were the originators not only of algebra, chemistry, and geology, but of many of the so-called improvements or refinements of civilization, such as street lamps, window-panes, firework, stringed instruments, cultivated fruits, perfumes, spices, etc..."}}
  35. ^ Piero Ariotti (Winter, 1968). "Galileo on the Isochrony of the Pendulum", Isis 59 (4), p. 414.
  36. ^ Ancient surgery
  37. ^ Ingrid Hehmeyer and Aliya Khan (2007). "Islam's forgotten contributions to medical science", Canadian Medical Association Journal 176 (10).
  38. ^ Zafarul-Islam Khan, At The Threshold (sic) Of A New Millennium – II, The Milli Gazette.
  39. ^ a b c d e f g Khaled al-Hadidi (1978), "The Role of Muslem Scholars in Oto-rhino-Laryngology", The Egyptian Journal of O.R.L. 4 (1), p. 1-15. (cf. Ear, Nose and Throat Medical Practice in Muslim Heritage, Foundation for Science Technology and Civilization.)
  40. ^ a b A. I. Makki. "Needles & Pins", AlShindagah 68, January-February 2006.
  41. ^ Robert Briffault (1938). The Making of Humanity, p. 191.
  42. ^ a b Khwarizm, Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation.
  43. ^ a b c d Robert E. Hall (1973). "Al-Khazini", Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. VII, p. 346.
  44. ^ Marshall Clagett (1961). The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages, p. 64. University of Wisconsin Press.
  45. ^ a b Nicholas J. Wade, Stanley Finger (2001), "The eye as an optical instrument: from camera obscura to Helmholtz's perspective", Perception 30 (10), p. 1157-1177.
  46. ^ Dr. A. Zahoor (1997). Al-Zarqali (Arzachel), University of Indonesia.
  47. ^ Ahmad Y Hassan, Flywheel Effect for a Saqiya.
  48. ^ Islam, Knowledge, and Science. University of Southern California.
  49. ^ Linear astrolabe, Encyclopædia Britannica.
  50. ^ Abdel Aziz al-Jaraki (2007), When Ridhwan al-Sa’ati Anteceded Big Ben by More than Six Centuries, Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation.
  51. ^ 101 gadgets that changed the world
  52. ^ ANTIQUES; To Reflect On Or Simply To Admire
  53. ^ Georges Ifrah (2001). The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quatum Computer, p. 171, Trans. E.F. Harding, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (See [2])
  54. ^ a b Ahmad Y Hassan. The Crank-Connecting Rod System in a Continuously Rotating Machine.
  55. ^ Professor Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (cf. The Automata of Al-Jazari, Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul.)
  56. ^ a b c Ahmad Y Hassan. The Origin of the Suction Pump - Al-Jazari 1206 A.D.
  57. ^ a b A 13th Century Programmable Robot. University of Sheffield.
  58. ^ a b Arslan Terzioglu (2007). "The First Attempts of Flight, Automatic Machines, Submarines and Rocket Technology in Turkish History", The Turks (ed. H. C. Guzel), p. 804-810.
  59. ^ Ahmad Y Hassan (1976). Taqi al-Din and Arabic Mechanical Engineering, p. 34-35. Instiute for the History of Arabic Science, University of Aleppo.
  60. ^ pencil, Encyclopædia Britannica
  61. ^ "SA MOTORING HISTORY - TIMELINE" (PDF). Government of South Australia.
  62. ^ Setright, L. J. K. (2004). Drive On!: A Social History of the Motor Car. Granta Books. ISBN 1-86207-698-7.
  63. ^ "Benefit to humanity"
  64. ^ Who Invented The Tank? - Bovington Tank Museum
  65. ^ [John Brockman, editor. The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years. Phoenix. 2000]
  66. ^ David Lazarus (1995). 'Japan's Edison' Is Country's Gadget King : Japanese Inventor Holds Record for Patent. International Herald Tribune.
  67. ^ Inventing Email

References

  • Asimov, Isaac, "Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery", Harper & Row, 1989. ISBN 0-06-015612-0
  • De Bono, Edward, "Eureka! An Illustrated History of Inventions from the Wheel to the Computer", Thames & Hudson, 1974.
  • Gowlett, John, "Ascent to Civilization", McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1992. ISBN 0-07-544312-0
  • Platt, Richard, "Eureka!: Great Inventions and How They Happened", 2003.
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