350 BC | | The Chinese develop a printing press with symbols carved on a wooden block |
200 BC | | Archimedes (287-212 BC) ( the birth of fluidstatics & earliest recorded writing in mechanics) Archimedes made statics (engineering mechanics) an Autonomous theoretical science |
50 AD | | Vitruvius writes ten volume compendium of Roman engineering practice |
105 AD | | Tsai Lun invents paper |
180 AD | | First alchemy writings appeared in Egypt. |
400 AD | | Windmill in use in China |
700 AD | | Chinese invent Porcelain |
820 AD | | Algebra Invented |
1126 AD | | First artesian well dug in Artois. |
1180 AD | | Use of a glass mirror is recorded. |
1199 AD | | Alexander Neckam from St Albans writes De naturis rerum ("On natural things") and makes the first known Western reference to the magnetic compass. |
1242 AD | | Roger Bacon describes the preparation of gunpowder ( in use in China in 1000 AD) |
1428 AD | | Painter, Masaccio (1401-1428) introduces perspective - a technique that brought a three-dimensional look to painting |
1450 AD | | The Chinese develop a printing press that uses Movable wooden blocks |
1454 AD | | Johannes Gutenburg invents a printing press with movable metal type |
1500 AD | | Birth of Engineering Science (start of Renaissance) |