Alphabet— Non-Transport Machines
InventTable — ALPHABET ERA — Machines non-transport
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Crossbow | 650 BCE | China | ||
| Rotary crank | 575 BCE | Carthage/Spain | ||
| Crane | wooden structure with pulley | 515 BCE | Greece | |
| Winch | 500 BCE | Persia/Assyria | ||
| Fan | 500 BCE | India | ||
| Catapult | weapon | 485 BCE | India | |
| Pike | long spear weapon | 400 BCE | Macedonia, Greece | |
| Trebuchet | hurling weapon | 350 BCE | China | |
| Piston | machine | 250 BCE | Egypt | |
| Compound pulley | 2 pulleys with rope | 250 BCE | Archimedes | Greece |
| Archimedes screw | water transport | 200 BCE | Archimedes | Greece (65) |
| Belt drive | with pulleys | 100 BCE | Rome | |
| Arch architecture | bridge, aqueduct, dam | 50 BCE | Rome | |
| Gears | like a toothed pulley for changing force | 50 AD | Hero of Alexandria | Hellenic Egypt (84) |
| Claw hammer | lever/impactor | 79 AD | Pompeii, Rome | |
| Suspension bridge | iron | 100 AD | China | |
| Crank and rod | machine | 250 AD | Middle East | |
| Mongolian recurve bow | 300 AD | Mongolia | ||
| Mechanical clock | timekeeping | 725 AD | Yi Xing | China. (31) |