4650 th |
silk production: Si-Ling Chi, legitimate wife of
Prince Hoang-ti of China; for her achievement, Si-Ling Chi was
deified |
2600 th
|
road built across the isthmus of Corinth, 4.6
mi (7,4 km), to transport ships across land on wheels |
2150 th
|
paper made in China; it was used as a
packing material, for clothing, and for personal hygiene,
but not for writing |
2050 th
|
rotary winnowing machine, with crank handle
(China). |
1900 th
|
the oldest known piece of paper used for
writing |
1400 th
|
segmental arch bridge: An-chi bridge at
Chao-hsien, built to span the Grand Canal, dug to join the
Yang-tze and Yellow river systems |
1100 th
|
paper money (China) |
700 th
|
blowing-engines for furnaces and forges, with
crank-handle drive, and silk machinery, water-powered
(China) |
700 th
|
mechanical clocks in Europe, driven by
weight (the contemporary Chinese clocks were water-driven) |
600
th |
wire: Rudolf of Nuremberg devised the
process for drawing out the wire |
500
th |
horizontal water wheel, designed by
Leonardo da Vinci |
500
th |
round pocket watch, "The Nuremberg
Egg", after ten years work of Peter Henlein, including
his invention of a steel mainspring |
400
th |
flintlock gun by Marin Le Bourgeois,
France |
400
th |
Saturn observed by telescope: Galileo
using a magnification of 32 |
300
th |
three-color printing, by Jacob
Christoph Le Blon, a German painter |
250
th |
screw-manufacturing machine by Job and
William Wyatt, England |
250
th |
lighting rods by Benjamin Franklin,
Philadelphia |
250
th |
cast-iron cog wheels for mills, Carron
Iron Works, Glasgow, Scotland |
250
th |
roller-skates by violinist Joseph
Merlin of Huy, Belgium |
200
th |
hemp and flax-spinning machine by
Philippe de Girard |
200
th |
mowing machine by Peter Gaillard,
Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
200
th |
food canning (heat sterilization) by
Nicolas Appert, France |
150
th |
Winchester repeating rifle by B. Tyler
Henry, USA |
150
th |
internal combustion engine for the
"horseless carriage" by JJE Lenoir |
100
th |
neon lighting by George Claude, French
physicist |
100
th |
gas-propelled combine harvester by the
Holt Company, USA |
100
th |
rayon stockings for women manufactured
in Germany |
75
th |
color film (monopak-still) by L.
Godowsky and L. Mannes, New York |
75
th |
beer can introduced in New Jersey |
75
th |
paperback book by Sir Allen Lane of
Penguin Books, London |