The World's Greatest Inventions

GREATEST INVENTIONS OF ALL TIME society medicine bubble size corresponds science transport to number of votes O technology O discovery RACONTEUR TOP 60 VOTES 1.8 million years ago Language Unknown - ? Fire (control of) Staircase Homo Erectus - ? Unknown - 5000 BC Wheel Unknown - 3500 BC Writing Mathematics Mesopotamians - 3200 BC Babylonians - 3000 BC Abacus Sumeria - 2300 BC 2500 BC ABC Book Glass Egyptians - 2400 BC Phoenicians - 2500 BC Plough Unknown - 2000 BC Alphabet Egyptians - 1500 BC 105 AD Agriculture Electricity Soap Epipaleolithic - 10,000 BC "0" Thales of Miletus - 600 BC Phoenicians - 600 BC Democracy Indoor plumbing Babylonians - 300 BC Mechanical Clock Greeks - 507 BC Paper Greeks - 300 BC Scientific Method Yi Xing and Liang Lingzan - Ts'ai Lun - 105 Aristole, Alhazen, Galileo, Bacon Desacartes - 312 BC to 1638 Compass Eyeglasses China - 1119 Printing press Salvino degli Amati - 1280 Pencil Johannes Gutenberg - 1439 Conrad Gesner - 1565 Microscope 1608 AD Telescope Hans & Zacharias Jansen - 1600 Steam engine Hans Lippershey - 1608 Vaccines Thomas Savery - 1698 Sewing Machine Edward 1796 Thomas Saint - 1790 Bісуcle Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun - 1818 Match John Walker - 1826 1827 AD Camera Wireless telegraph Joseph Nicephore Niepce - 1827 Fridge Samuel F.B. Morse - 1832 Internal Combustion Engine Jacob Perkins - 1834 Étenne Lenoir - 1859 Telephone Light bulb Modern Car Álexander Graham Bell - 1876 Radio Thomas Edison - 1879 Karl Benz - 1886 Hearing aid Guglielmo Marconi - 1895 Air conditioning Flight Miller Reese Hutchinson - 1898 Washing machine Willis Haviland Carrier - 1902 Wright brothers - 1903 Alva J. Fisher - 1907 1907 AD Plastic Particle accelerators Leo Baekeland - 1907 Penicillin John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton - 1920 Alexander Fleming - 1928 ш Antibiotics Alexander Aleming - 1929 Tampon Transistor Dr. Earle Cleveland Haas - 1929 Lego John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, William B. Shockley - 1947 Ole Kirk Christiansen - 1949 Birth control pill 1954 AD Optical Fibre cables Margaret Sanger / Gregory Goodwin Pincus / John Rock / Carl Djerassi - 1950 to 1960 Semi Conductor Narinder Singh Kapany - 1954 Integrated circuit John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain - 1956 Mobile Phone Jack S. Kilby - 1958 1974 AD Personal Computer Martin Cooper - 1973 MITS - 1974 World Wide Web Smart phone Tim Berners Lee - 1989 IBM and BelSouth - 1992 3D Printing Charles Hull - 1993 1995 AD GPS Bradford Parkinson, Roger L. Easton, and Ivan A. Getting - 1995 TOP 3 INVENTIONS World Wide Web Printing Press Wheel The wheel was invented at a relatively late point in the development of human civili- sation, in the Bronze Age around 3500 B.C. By this time, humans were already herding domesticated animals and had social hierarchy Sir Tim Bemers-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989, 20 years after the first Johannes Gutenberg, a German blacksmith and publisher, invented mechanical movable type printing in 1439, laying the material basis for the spread of leaming to the masses connection was established over what is today known as the Internet. Interestingly, Lee's initial proposal for the Web was rejected by CERN Source: http://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/ Source: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/477067/printing-press Source: http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/revolutionary-invention-wheel-001713 Sources: webfoundation.org , wikipedia.org, history.com, edinformatics.com, ancient-origins.net, universetoday.com, discovery.com, Harvard Gazette, Invention of cooking drove evolution of the human species, about.com, bbc.co.uk, pbs.org, economist.com, grodescanning.com, hygieneforhealth.org.au, sewerhistory.org, History-Of-Mathematics.htm Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (by Morris Kline), nobelprize.org, about.com, plastiquarian.com, tampax.co.uk, edinformatics.com, Ifrah, Georges (2001). The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, cnn.com, loc.gov, theinstitute.iee.org, historyofmatches.com,jstor.org, ywp.nanowrimo.org, indecohotels.com, encydlopedia.com, rantifestyle.com © Raconteur survey of approx. 400 individuals, March 2015 (a ... .. Im шш