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The Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions
Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Mon 02 Oct 2006 02:46 PM PDT
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ANCIENT INVENTIONS
Museum Directory
 Distaff Deep Antiquity |
 Warp-Weighted Loom 7000 BCE |
 Woven Cloth 7000 BCE |
 String Skirt 6000 BCE |
 Earth-fired Pottery (fragment) 5000 BCE |
 Eyeliner 4000 BCE |
 Sumerian Bull Lyre 3200 BCE |
 Cuneiform Cylinder Seal 3000 BCE |
 Sumerian Harp 2500 BCE |
 Coiled Ceramics 2500 BCE |
 Potter's Wheel 2400 BCE |
 Trepanation Kit 2000 BCE |
 Folding Stool 2000 BCE |
 Olive Oil Soap 2000 BCE |
 Toys 1100 BCE |
 Aztec Calendar Wheels 1000 BCE |
 Candles 1000 BCE |
 Tumbler Lock 1000 BCE |
 Decoding Device 5th Century BCE |
 Arches 500 BCE |
 Crossbow 400 BCE |
 Catapult 400 BCE |
 Chelys-Lyra 400 BCE |
 Chaldean Sundial 320 BCE |
 Lighthouse 300 BCE |
 Archimedes' Screw 250 BCE |
 Battery 250 BCE |
 Sarculum (hoe) 250 BCE |
 Compass 220 BCE |
 Ship Shaker 214 BCE |
 Pompeian House 200 BCE |
 Roman-Style Fresco 50 CE |
 Blown Glass 50 BCE |
 Roman Forceps 79 CE |
 Holy Water Dispenser 100 CE |
 Thunder-Making Machine 100 CE |
 Steam Engine 100 CE |
 Self-Moving Stand 100 CE |
 Frame Harp 400 CE |
 Siege Ladder 537 CE |
 Abacus Medieval |
 Stained Glass Medieval |
 Keel Breaker Early 15th Century CE |
 Trebuchet Early 15th Century CE |
 Bodhran Drum 1500 CE |
 Earthen Oven (Mumu) 1700 CE |
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