Written — Energy radiant
InventTable — WRITTEN ERA — Energy radiant
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Oven | for bread baking | 3000 BCE | Egypt | |
Candle | radiant light | 3000 BCE | Egypt/Crete | |
Bellows | for smelting | 2500 BCE | Mesopotamia | |
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HISTORIC TOP 100 FIRE USES | ||||
1) Control of FIRE | ||||
2) Smelting copper, bronze, iron | ||||
3) Steam engine | ||||
4) Internal combustion engine | ||||
5) Black gunpowder | ||||
6) Glass, optical lenses | ||||
7) Ceramics | ||||
8) Fission power | ||||
9) Artificial satellite | ||||
10) Semiconductor electronics | ||||
11) Smokeless gunpowder | ||||
12) Plastics | ||||
13) Steam turbine | ||||
14) Nitrogen fixation (Haber-Bosch process) | ||||
15) Concrete | ||||
16) V-2 rocket | ||||
17) Petroleum refining | ||||
18) Soap | ||||
19) Stainless steel | ||||
20) Aluminum | ||||
21) Fiberoptics | ||||
22) Nail | ||||
23) Screw | ||||
24) Photovoltaic cell, silicon | ||||
25) Fusion technology | ||||
26) Oxy-acetylene torch welding | ||||
27) Safety bicycle | ||||
28) Saw | ||||
29) Gears | ||||
30) Axe, wedge, chisel | ||||
31) Rivet | ||||
32) Synthetic diamond | ||||
33) Disposable hypodermic syringe | ||||
34). Polyester, synthetic fiber polymers |