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Period: 6000 BCE to 6000 BCE
EGYPT: Written language system
With this writing an attempt was made to convey an ornamental effect, the strange figurative component of Egyptian writing, originated in some ideograms that were represented in a visual way, some objects such as the sun, the earth and stars, the fauna ... -
Period: 5000 BCE to 5000 BCE
EGYPT: The felling
Ancient Egyptian sculpture was practiced since the Predynastic period with admirable perfection in statuary and bas-reliefs, conserving thousands of objects of both kinds made of wood, ivory, and bronze. -
Period: 4000 BCE to 4000 BCE
EGYPT:The copper mirror
They consist of round metal sheets with a handle for the convenience of its users. -
Period: 4000 BCE to 4000 BCE
EGYPT:Locks
Locksmithing has been, from its origins, the art of designing and producing locks and other material protection mechanisms to prevent unauthorized access to buildings, objects, storage facilities, cabinets, rooms and other sites. -
Period: 3000 BCE to 3000 BCE
EGYPT:The plumb line
It is one of the oldest measuring instruments, it is used to find the vertical line given a point. -
Period: 3000 BCE to 3000 BCE
EGYPT:The papyrus
is the name given to the writing support made from Cyperus papyrus, an aquatic marsh grass of the sedge family very common in the Nile River in Egypt -
Period: 2750 BCE to 2750 BCE
EGYPT:Oil lamp
for interior lighting of stately homes. These lamps were flat oval bowls made of clay or glass, filled with oil and with a wick that floated freely in the oil. -
Period: 2750 BCE to 2750 BCE
EGYPT: make up
a green shadow was applied to the upper eyelid. In addition, they used khlo to darken their eyebrows and eyelashes. For the eyelashes, they used small sticks of wood or animal bone. -
Period: 2000 BCE to 2000 BCE
EGYPT:Tooth paste
The Egyptians mixed pepper, powdered salt, mint leaves and various flowers, creating a paste called clister -
Period: 750 BCE to 750 BCE
ROME: Calendar
it was the first system to divide time in Ancient Rome. According to mythical tradition, the Roman calendar was created by one of its first two kings, Romulus. The early Roman calendar fixed the length of months at 29 days, 12 hours, and 44 minutes with lunar months of 29 or 30 days. -
Period: 600 BCE to 600 BCE
ROMA: Selwers
The first culverts were built by Tarquinius Superbus around the 7th century BC. They were an open-air canal system that drained the water from the swamps at the bottom of the valleys of the seven hills. -
Period: 300 BCE to 300 BCE
GREECE: Bases of geometry
Figures have played a fundamental role in the history of mathematics: points, lines, squares, circles, triangles and other figures, constitute the basis of Greek geometry. Its properties continue to be studied, applied and admired in art and architecture. -
Period: 250 BCE to 250 BCE
GREECE: Alarm clock
A famous Greek philosopher built his own version of a glass alarm clock. He added a tube to the filling container shaped like a siphon. -
Period: 200 BCE to 200 BCE
EGYPT:The balance
The current scale of Justice comes from Ancient Egypt, but it was not the symbol of Maat, the Egyptian goddess of Justice. -
Period: 200 BCE to 200 BCE
MIDDLE AGE: Watermills
It is one that uses the kinetic energy of the movement of water to move a mechanical device and that can be used for grinding cereals, generating electricity -
Period: 59 BCE to 59 BCE
ROME: Newspaper
It is a numbering system that was developed in Ancient Rome and was used throughout the Roman Empire, remaining after its disappearance and is still used in some areas. This system uses some capital letters as symbols to represent certain values. -
Period: 79 to 79
GREECE: Water mill
The essential model is composed of a wheel –or turbine– that triggers a double mechanical process of translation and force, which in turn will be used in various industrial or agricultural uses. -
Period: 666 to 666
ROME: Heating
It is an underground heating system called the hypocaust (in Greek) (hypocaustum, in Latin), created or perfected in the 1st century BC. C. by the engineer Cayo Sergio Orata, which was used in hot springs or steam baths, as well as in the houses of the wealthiest citizens. -
Period: 676 to 676
GREECE: Odometer
It is a device that measures the distance traveled by a moving object. -
Period: 777 to 777
ROME: Roman numbers
It is a numbering system that was developed in Ancient Rome and was used throughout the Roman Empire, remaining after its disappearance and is still used in some areas. This system uses some capital letters as symbols to represent certain values. -
Period: 1200 to 1200
MIDDLE AGE: The powder
The Arabs knew about this Chinese invention and used it to create firearms, using the expansive force of gases, in order to launch, through a metal tube, a heavy iron or stone bullet. -
Period: 1286 to 1286
MIDDLE AGE: Glasses
Before the 14th century, vision defects, whether congenital, such as myopia, or linked to age, were an irremediable limitation. This particularly affected those who engaged in precision work or intellectual activities based on reading and writing. Among the latter were the monks, for centuries the great conservators of Western lore. -
Period: 1290 to 1290
MIDDLE AGE: Mechanical watches
Galileo Galilei inspired Christian Huygens in the design of the first pendulum clock in 1656, it was the most accurate until then with a margin of error of 5 minutes a day. The best known was the Cuckoo clock. It is not known for sure who invented the first mechanical watch, but the first ones found date back to 1290, with a mechanism consisting of a set of rotating wheels that were powered by a weight hung on each string. -
Period: 1500 to 1500
GREECE: Cartography
It is the applied science that is responsible for gathering, making and analyzing measurements and data from regions of the Earth, to represent them graphically with different linear dimensions - reduced scale. -
Period: to
MODERN AGE: Compound microscope
It is not possible to say with absolute certainty who was the true inventor of the microscope. There are quite a few sources that point to Zacharias Janssen as the legitimate inventor of the compound microscope in the year 1590. However, other indications indicate that the true inventor could have been Hans Lippershey. -
Period: to
ROME: Toilets
The ancient toilet that the Romans used was similar to a perforated plate or plate supported on two masonry supports; at other times it was just a hole in the ground. Another option was the use of utensils in the shape of a boat and a basin as a urinal. -
Period: to
MIDDLE AGE: Horizontal windmills
Horizontal axis mills were used in Western Europe to grind wheat and pump water. -
MODERN AGE: Telescope
it is a tool astronomers use to see distant objects. Most telescopes, like all large telescopes, work by using curved mirrors to capture and focus light from the night sky. -
MODERN AGE: Seeder
It is an agricultural tool designed to sow and fertilize the land, which is used in the world with all kinds of seeds. It was re-invented in 1701 by farmer Jethro Tull. -
Period: to
MODERN AGE: Thermometer
Image result of invention of thermometer
The physicist Fahrenheit was the one who invented the first modern thermometer. Fahrenheit invented the alcohol thermometer in 1709, and the mercury thermometer in 1714. -
Period: to
MODERN AGE: Lightning rod
is an instrument whose objective is to attract an ionized beam from the air to conduct the discharge towards the ground, in such a way that it does not cause damage to people or buildings. -
Period: to
ROME: Courier service
The postal service is a system dedicated to transporting written documents, as well as ... Augustus, emperor of Rome, who had a good network of roads, apparently was the creator of the first service -
MODERN AGE: Steam machine
It is an external combustion engine that transforms the thermal energy of a quantity of water into mechanical energy. This work cycle is carried out in two stages -
MODERN AGE: Hot air balloon
It is a non-propelled aerostatic aircraft that uses the Archimedean fluid principle to fly -
MODERN AGE: Modern refrigeration system
They are designed so that internal combustion engines can maintain a homogeneous temperature between 82 ° C and 113 ° C.