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The Greatest Inventions In The Past 1000 Years

Invention Year Inventor Notes

1 Printing Press 1450 Johannes Gutenberg allowed literacy to greatly expand

2 Electric Light 1879 Thomas Edison powered countless social changes

3 Automobile 1885 Karl Benz increased personal mobility and freedom

4 Telephone 1876 Alexander Graham Bell spread communication across wide areas

5 Radio and Television 1895 & 1926 Guglielmo Marconi & John Baird made the world smaller

6 Vaccination 1796 Edward Jenner protected people from disease

7 Computer 1939 John Atanasoff, et al. predecessor to the Internet and still more

8 Airplane 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright allowed people and products to quickly move across the world

9 Gas powered tractor 1892 John Froelich started agricultural mechanization

10 Anesthesia 1844 Horace Wells provided a great leap forward for medicine

Content provided by: Larry Gormley, HistoryShots
Source(s): Platt, Richard. Smithsonian Visual Timeline of Inventions. New York, 1994.
Comments: Criteria: Improving the standard of living

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