Skip to Content

Written — Energy radiant

InventTable — WRITTEN ERA — Energy radiant

InventionDescriptionYearInventorCountry
Oven for bread baking 3000 BCE Egypt
Candle radiant light 3000 BCE Egypt/Crete
Bellows for smelting 2500 BCE Mesopotamia

       
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        

Back to InventTable Era: WRITTEN ERA Classification: Energy radiant