31 events with tag "invention"
6000 BC
ID: 5404
Earliest wine production in Georgia - archaeological evidence of wine in clay qvevri vessels, beginning of viticulture
ID: 5404
2700 BC
ID: 4452
Abacus developed in Mesopotamia - first known calculating device using beads on rods for arithmetic
ID: 4452
300 BC
ID: 5353
Archimedes screw invented - revolutionizes mine drainage, later used throughout Roman mines for water lifting
ID: 5353
300 BC
ID: 5384
Celts invent chainmail - revolutionary armor technology later adopted by Romans, made from 20,000+ iron rings
ID: 5384
200 BC
ID: 5386
Celts invent wheeled reaper - Pliny describes Celtic vallus harvesting machine pushed by oxen, not reinvented until 1800s
ID: 5386
150 BC
ID: 5387
Celts invent soap - Pliny credits Gauls with soap making from tallow and ash, exported to Rome for hair dyeing
ID: 5387
100 BC
ID: 5388
Celts invent wooden barrel - replaces heavy ceramic amphorae for wine storage and transport, revolutionizes trade
ID: 5388
105
ID: 4706
Cai Lun invents paper - court eunuch creates paper from bark, hemp, rags
ID: 4706
798
ID: 4089
Alcuin introduces punctuation - develops question mark and other marks to clarify meaning in texts
ID: 4089
868
ID: 4713
Diamond Sutra printed - world's oldest dated printed book, woodblock printing
ID: 4713
1234
ID: 5529
Korea invents world's first metal movable type printing, 200 years before Gutenberg
ID: 5529
1490
ID: 107
Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines, tanks, and submarines - though unbuildable, shows mechanical imagination unleashed
ID: 107
1614
ID: 4456
John Napier publishes 'Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio' - invents logarithms to turn multiplication into addition
ID: 4456
1622
ID: 4458
William Oughtred invents slide rule - combines logarithmic scales for multiplication and division, used until 1970s
ID: 4458
1800
ID: 670
Alessandro Volta invents electric battery using mathematical principles of electrical potential
ID: 670
1850
ID: 882
Robert Bunsen develops Bunsen burner at University of Heidelberg
ID: 882
1867
ID: 4266
Christopher Sholes completes first practical typewriter prototype with QWERTY keyboard layout to prevent jamming
ID: 4266
1868
ID: 4267
June 23, 1868
Sholes, Glidden, and Soule receive U.S. Patent 79,265 for 'Type-Writer' - foundation of modern typing
ID: 4267
1876
ID: 1001
Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone using mathematical analysis of sound waves and Fourier analysis
ID: 1001
1879
ID: 1019
Thomas Edison perfects the incandescent light bulb
ID: 1019
1884
ID: 4216
Herman Hollerith files first patent application for his electromechanical punched card tabulator while working at U.S. Patent Office
ID: 4216
1893
ID: 4269
Edwin Seibels invents vertical filing system - replaces horizontal pigeonholes and bound ledgers with standing folders
ID: 4269
1909
ID: 4277
Rand Kardex develops visible index system - cards with protruding tabs for quick reference without pulling files
ID: 4277
1938
ID: 1468
FM radio invented by Edwin Armstrong
ID: 1468
1947
ID: 1590
Transistor invented at Bell Labs
ID: 1590
1947
ID: 4297
December 23, 1947
Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley demonstrate first working transistor at Bell Labs - revolutionizes electronics
ID: 4297
1948
ID: 1611
Velcro first produced commercially by Georges de Mestral
ID: 1611
1958
ID: 1744
Jack Kilby invents integrated circuit using mathematical semiconductor physics
ID: 1744
1958
ID: 4309
September 1958
Jack Kilby demonstrates first integrated circuit at Texas Instruments - multiple components on single chip
ID: 4309
1973
ID: 4331
May 1973
Bob Metcalfe invents Ethernet at Xerox PARC - local area networking standard still used today
ID: 4331
1989
ID: 2064
Tim Berners-Lee invents World Wide Web using mathematical hypertext theory
ID: 2064