Editing Timeline of historic inventions (section)

====1st century BC====
* '''1st century BC:''' Segmental [[arch bridge]] (e.g. [[Pont-Saint-Martin (bridge)|Pont-Saint-Martin]] or [[Ponte San Lorenzo]]) in [[Italy]], [[Roman Republic]]<ref>O'Connor, Colin: ''Roman Bridges'', Cambridge University Press, 1993, {{ISBN|0-521-39326-4}}, p.&nbsp;171</ref><ref>Galliazzo, Vittorio (1995): "I ponti romani", Vol. 1, Edizioni Canova, Treviso, {{ISBN|88-85066-66-6}}, pp.&nbsp;429–437</ref>
* '''1st century BC:''' News bulletin during the reign of Julius Caesar.<ref name="Chisholm 1911, p. 159">{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Acta Diurna |volume=1 |page=159}}</ref> A paper form, i.e. the earliest [[newspaper]], later appeared during the late Han dynasty in the form of the [[Dibao]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761564853_4/newspaper.html |title=Newspaper - MSN Encarta |access-date=17 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206041632/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761564853_4/Newspaper.html |archive-date=6 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=if30>Irving Fang, ''A History of Mass Communication: Six Information Revolutions'', Focal Press, 1997, p. 30</ref><ref>Lamont, Ian, [https://www.scribd.com/doc/5021205/The-Rise-of-the-Press-in-Late-Imperial-China "The Rise of the Press in Late Imperial China"], 27 November 2007</ref>
* '''1st century BC:''' [[Arch dam]] ([[Glanum Dam]]) in [[Gallia Narbonensis]], [[Roman Republic]] (see also [[List of Roman dams]])<ref>Smith, Norman (1971): "A History of Dams", Peter Davies, London, {{ISBN|978-0-432-15090-0}}, pp.&nbsp;25–49 (33–35)</ref><ref>Schnitter, Niklaus (1978): "Römische Talsperren", ''Antike Welt'', Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.&nbsp;25–32 (31f.)</ref><ref>Schnitter, Niklaus (1987): "Verzeichnis geschichtlicher Talsperren bis Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts", in: Garbrecht, Günther (ed.): ''Historische Talsperren'', Verlag Konrad Wittwer, Stuttgart, Vol. 1, {{ISBN|3-87919-145-X}}, pp.&nbsp;9–20 (12)</ref><ref>Schnitter, Niklaus (1987): "Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Bogenstaumauer", Garbrecht, Günther (ed.): ''Historische Talsperren'', Vol. 1, Verlag Konrad Wittwer, Stuttgart, {{ISBN|3-87919-145-X}}, pp.&nbsp;75–96 (80)</ref><ref>Hodge, A. Trevor (2000): "Reservoirs and Dams", in: [[Örjan Wikander|Wikander, Örjan]]: ''Handbook of Ancient Water Technology'', Technology and Change in History, Vol. 2, Brill, Leiden, {{ISBN|90-04-11123-9}}, pp.&nbsp;331–339 (332, fn. 2)</ref>
* '''Before 40 BC:''' [[Trip hammer]] in [[China]]<ref name="needham volume 4 part 2 184" >Needham, Volume 4, Part 2, 184.</ref>
* '''38 BC:''' An empty shell Glyph for [[0#Pre-Columbian Americas|zero]], is found on a [[Maya numerals]] Stela, from Chiapa de Corzo, [[Chiapas]]. Independently invented by [[Ptolemy|Claudius Ptolemy]], in the second century CE Egypt, and appearing in the calculations of the [[Almagest]].
* '''37 BC – 14 BC:''' [[Glass blowing]] developed in Jerusalem.<ref name="Avigad">Avigad, N (1983). ''Discovering Jerusalem''. Nashville. {{ISBN|0-8407-5299-7}}</ref><ref name="Tattona">Tatton-Brown, V. (1991). "The Roman Empire". In H. Tait (ed.) ''Five Thousand Years of Glass''. pp. 62–97. British Museum Press: London {{ISBN|0-8122-1888-4}}</ref><ref name="Stern">{{cite book|author1=Birgit Schlick-Nolte|author2=E. Marianne|title=Early glass of the ancient world: 1600 B.C.-A.D. 50 : Ernesto Wolf collection|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dJUsAQAAIAAJ&q=clay+blowpipe|year=1994|publisher=[[Gerd Hatje|Verlag Gerd Hatje]]|isbn=978-3-7757-0502-8|pages=81–83}}</ref>
* '''Before 25 BC:''' [[Reverse overshot water wheel]] by [[Roman engineering|Roman engineers]] in [[Rio Tinto (river)|Rio Tinto]], Spain<ref>Davies, Oliver: ''Roman Mines in Europe'', Oxford (1935)</ref>
* '''25 BC:''' [[Noodle]] in [[Lajia]] in [[China]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lu |first1=Houyuan |last2=Yang |first2=Xiaoyan |last3=Ye |first3=Maolin |title=Culinary archaeology: Millet noodles in Late Neolithic China |journal=Nature |date=13 October 2005 |volume=437 |issue=7061 |pages=967–968 |doi=10.1038/437967a |pmid=16222289|bibcode=2005Natur.437..967L |s2cid=4385122 }}</ref>