The Encyclopedia of Inventions

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An historical chronology of inventions, Ancient the wheel, tools, numerals, paper, the bow, printing, mapmaking, water wheels, windmills, nets and rope, looms, sailing, the rudder, pulleys and gears, glass, plate glass, the crane, balances and weights, boats, bricks, pumps, smelting and alloying, casting of metals, coinage, iron and steel, plumbing, pottery, salt mining, canals and locks. Middle Ages and clocks, crank handles, spectacles, magnetic compass, quadrant, knitting machinery, barometer, firing mechanisms, microscope, thermometers, telescopes, pendulums, gunpowder. Industrial flying shuttle, seed drill, chronometer, electrostatic generation, Volta's pile, machine tools, steam engines, steamboat, locomotive, cotton gin Modern internal combustion engine, telegraph and telephone, photography, generation of electricity, sound recording, flying machine, radio and television, radar, transistor, and nuclear power.