Most World Changing Inventions Still In Use Today

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Thomas Edison is probably best known for the Light Bulb but was involved with several other important inventions and discoveries as
well (film, audio, electricity and its possible uses).

 

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Alexander Graham Bell is best known for the Telephone, but also created a photophone.

 

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Eli Whitney and his Cotton Gin revolutionized agricultural products like cotton could be separated from their hulls.

 

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Johannes Gutenberg developed the first Printing Press. How many publications are there these days?

 

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John Baird came up with the first Television. We all know how influential that's been over these many decades.

 

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One of our Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, invented a few things. The Lightening Rod, Bifocal Glasses, and the first Odometer.

 

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Henry Ford didn't invent the first car, but he did invent the Assembly Line method of manufacturing them, which made them affordable and accessible to the common American.

 

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James Naismith invented the first Basketball. The main item necessary to play the beloved sport of basketball.

 

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Herman Hollerith is responsible for a very early, "punch card" crude computer of sorts.

 

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Who can forget Nikola Tesla? A total genius had much of his work and inventions stolen by others. Tesla invented fluorescent lighting, the Tesla induction motor, and the Tesla coil.

 

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Steve Jobs is probably best known for his early work with the Windows operating system, for which Bill Gates took credit. But his true contribution as the co-founder of Apple is his work on the iPhone, iPad, and basically the early “smartphone,” or hand-held computer.

 

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Tim Berners-Lee is credited with the invention of the World Wide Web of which we all benefit.

 

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The internet has changed the world.

 

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The rifled barrel and the mini-ball

 

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Herman Hollerith is responsible for a very early, "punch card" crude computer of sorts.

I held a stack of punch cards in my hand and touched a card reader as well...never used them but I saw/touched them.

They acted as the disk/hard drive.

 

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Thomas Crapper invented the toilet

 

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The greatest human invention of all was agriculture. After that the greatest was the wheel then air conditioning.