| The Greatest Inventions In The Past 1000 Years |
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Invention |
Year |
Inventor |
Notes |
| 1 |
Printing Press |
1450 |
Gutenberg |
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| 2 |
Electric Light |
1879 |
Thomas Edison |
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| 3 |
Automobile |
1885 |
Karl Benz |
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| 4 |
Telephone |
1876 |
Alexander Graham Bell |
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| 5 |
Radio and Television |
1895 & 1926 |
Guglielmo Marconi & John Baird |
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| 6 |
Vaccination |
1796 |
Edward Jenner |
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| 7 |
Computer |
1939 |
John Atanasoff, et al. |
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| 8 |
Airplane |
1903 |
Orville and Wilbur Wright |
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| 9 |
Gas powered tractor |
1892 |
John Froelich |
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| 10 |
Anesthesia |
1844 |
Horace Wells |
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Source: https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/greatest-inventions-past-1000-years
spread communication across wide areas
started agricultural mechanization
| increased personal mobility and freedom |
provided a great leap forward for medicineallowed people and products to quickly move
powered countless social changes
made the world smaller
protected people from disease
| transformed business world; predecessor to the Internet |
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allowed literacy to greatly expand
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