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) |