Tests a large event set over a 2000-year period.
Date | Description |
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0038 | Hydraulic-powered bellows invented by Du Shi |
77 | First encyclopaedic work by Pliny the Elder |
105 | Paper by Cai Lun |
132 | Rudimentary seismometer by Zhang Heng |
180 | Rotary fan by Ding Huan |
589 | Toilet Paper by Yan Zhitui |
618 | Porcelain |
673 | Greek fire flamethrower invented by Kallinikos of Heliopolis |
700 | Quill pen |
721 | Distilled alcohol by Jābir ibn Hayyān |
754 | The first Pharmacy in Baghdad |
758 | Tar pavement in Baghdad |
763 | Psychiatric hospital: Bimaristan in Baghdad |
800 | Sine quadrant by Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī |
857 | Under-arm deodorant: Ziryab |
857 | Beauty parlour: Ziryab |
873 | Programmable machine: Banū Mūsā |
873 | Gas mask: Banū Mūsā |
873 | Self-feeding oil lamp: Banū Mūsā |
810 | Glass from stones: Abbas Ibn Firnas |
827 | Mechanical singing bird automaton: Al-Ma'mun |
875 | Hang glider: Abbas Ibn Firnas |
887 | Metronome: Abbas Ibn Firnas |
904 | Fire Arrow in China |
919 | Double-piston flamethrower in China |
953 | Fountain pen: Al-Muizz Lideenillah of Egypt |
989 | Multidomed church |
994 | Astronomical sextant: Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi |
1000 | Ligatures by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi |
1000 | Adhesive plaster: Abu al-Qasim |
1020 | Heliocentric astrolabe: Al-Sijzi[ |
1048 | Orthographical astrolabe: Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī |
1021 | Magnifying glass: Ibn al-Haytham |
1021 | Pinhole camera: Ibn al-Haytham |
1038 | Flywheel invented by Ibn Bassal in Al-Andalus |
1041 | Movable type printing press: Bi Sheng in China |
1044 | Hand grenade: Zhen Tian Lei in China |
1088 | Mechanical clock by Su Song |
1100 | Framed bead abacus in China |
1126 | Rocket: Li Gang in China |
1200 | Glass mirror in Europe |
1232 | Rocket launcher in China |
1260 | Explosive gunpowder in Egypt |
1274 | Siege cannon: Abu Yaqub Yusuf |
1275 | Torpedo invented by Hasan al-Rammah of Syria |
1297 | Wooden movable type printing: Wang Zhen of China |
1350 | Rope bridge in Peru |
1355 | Multistage rocket: Jiao Yu and Liu Ji |
1400 | Planetary analog computer: Jamshīd al-Kāshī |
1405 | Treasure ship: Zheng He |
1430 | Vodka: Isidore in Russia |
1450 | Alphabetic movable type printing press: Johannes Gutenberg |
1451 | Concave lens for eyeglasses: Nicholas of Cusa |
1494 | Double-entry bookkeeping system: Luca Pacioli |
1498 | Bristle toothbrush: Hongzhi Emperor |
1500 | Ball bearing invented by Leonardo Da Vinci |
1540 | Ether: Valerius Cordus |
1551 | Steam turbine: Taqi al-Din in Ottoman Egypt |
1565 | Pencil invented by Conrad Gesner |
1579 | Prefabricated home: Akbar the Great |
1592 | Ironclad Warship: Yi Sun-sin |
1596 | Water closet: John Harrington |
1608 | Telescope invented by Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen, Jacob Metius |
1610 | Flintlock: Marin le Bourgeoys |
1620 | Slide rule: William Oughtred |
1623 | Automatic calculator: Wilhelm Schickard |
1631 | Vernier scale devised by Pierre Vernier |
1642 | Adding machine: Blaise Pascal |
1643 | Barometer: Evangelista Torricelli |
1645 | Vacuum pump: Otto von Guericke |
1657 | Pendulum clock: Christiaan Huygens |
1672 | Steam car: Ferdinand Verbiest |
1679 | Pressure cooker: Denis Papin |
1698 | Steam engine powered water pump invented by Thomas Savery |
1700 | Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the Piano |
1700 | Water-based central heating invented in Russia |
1709 | Iron smelting using coke: Abraham Darby I |
1711 | Tuning fork: John Shore |
1712 | Steam piston engine: Thomas Newcomen |
1714 | Mercury thermometer: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit |
1717 | Mechanic slide rest invented by Andrey Nartov |
1731 | Octant: John Hadley, Thomas Godfrey |
1732 | Cast iron dome: Akinfiy Demidov |
1737 | Marine chronometer: John Harrison |
1739 | Ice palace: Anna of Russia and architect Pyotr Yeropkin |
1742 | Franklin stove: Benjamin Franklin |
1752 | Lightning rod: Benjamin Franklin |
1754 | Coaxial rotor / Model helicopter: Mikhail Lomonosov |
1762 | Off-axis reflecting telescope: Mikhail Lomonosov |
1764 | Spinning jenny: James Hargreaves/Thomas Highs |
1766 | Ivan Polzunov invents the two-cylinder engine |
1769 | Water frame: Richard Arkwright/Thomas Highs |
1776 | Steamboat invented by Claude de Jouffroy |
1776 | Watt steam engine: James Watt |
1777 | Circular saw: Samuel Miller |
1780 | Iron-cased rocket: Tipu Sultan in India |
1783 | Hot air balloon: Montgolfier brothers |
1784 | Bifocals: Benjamin Franklin |
1785 | Automatic flour mill: Oliver Evans |
1791 | Artificial teeth: Nicholas Dubois De Chemant |
1798 | Vaccination by Edward Jenner |