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| c. -800 BC |
| | The earliest surviving sundial is in use in Egypt | |
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| 710 BC |
| | The first known lock and key is fitted in the new palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad, in Assyria | |
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| 513 BC |
| | The Chinese become the first people to cast iron, after developing a furnace which can reach a very high temperature | |
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| c. 350 BC |
| | The earliest description of a pulley appears in a Greek text | |
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| c. 250 BC |
| | To help the king of Syracuse extract water from the hold of a ship (so the story goes), Archimedes invents the screw now known by his name | |
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| c. 200 BC |
| | Cement is in use for construction in Asia Minor, possibly developed first in Pergamum | |
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| c. 170 BC |
| | Parchment is invented by Eumenes II, king of Pergamum, according to traditional accounts | |
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| c. 50 BC |
| | The Phoenicians discover that a blob of molten glass can be puffed out to form a hollow vessel | |
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| c. 75 |
| | The dioptra, developed by Hero of Alexandria for surveying land, is an early form of theodolite | |
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| 105 |
| | The eunuch Ts'ai Lun either invents paper or presents a report on the new substance to the Chinese emperor | |
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