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ANCIENT INVENTIONS

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Distaff

Deep Antiquity

Warp-Weighted Loom

7000 BCE

Woven Cloth

7000 BCE

String Skirt

6000 BCE





Earth-fired Pottery (fragment)

5000 BCE

Eyeliner

4000 BCE

Sumerian Bull Lyre

3200 BCE

Cuneiform Cylinder Seal

3000 BCE





Sumerian Harp

2500 BCE

Coiled Ceramics

2500 BCE

Potter's Wheel

2400 BCE

Trepanation Kit

2000 BCE





Folding Stool

2000 BCE

Olive Oil Soap

2000 BCE

Toys

1100 BCE

Aztec Calendar Wheels

1000 BCE





Candles

1000 BCE

Tumbler Lock

1000 BCE

Decoding Device

5th Century BCE

Arches

500 BCE





Crossbow

400 BCE

Catapult

400 BCE

Chelys-Lyra

400 BCE

Chaldean Sundial

320 BCE





Lighthouse

300 BCE

Archimedes' Screw

250 BCE

Battery

250 BCE

Sarculum (hoe)

250 BCE





Compass

220 BCE

Ship Shaker

214 BCE

Pompeian House

200 BCE

Roman-Style Fresco

50 CE





Blown Glass

50 BCE

Roman Forceps

79 CE

Holy Water Dispenser

100 CE

Thunder-Making Machine

100 CE





Steam Engine

100 CE

Self-Moving Stand

100 CE

Frame Harp

400 CE

Siege Ladder

537 CE





Abacus

Medieval

Stained Glass

Medieval

Keel Breaker

Early 15th Century CE





Trebuchet

Early 15th Century CE

Bodhran Drum

1500 CE

Earthen Oven (Mumu)

1700 CE




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