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1939 BCE
Computer
John Atanasoff transformed the business world and was the predecessor to the Internet. -
1926 BCE
Television
John Baird also expand entertainment. -
1903 BCE
Airplane
Orville and Wibur Wright transformed tranportation -
1895 BCE
Radio
Guglielmo Marconi made something else to make life more enjoyable. -
1885 BCE
Automobile
Karl benz helped increase personal mobility and freedom. -
1879 BCE
Electric Light
Powered countless social changes. -
1876 BCE
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell helped spread communication. -
1844 BCE
Anesthesia
Horace Wells provided a great leap forward for medicine. -
1796 BCE
Vaccination
Edward Jenner protected people from harmful diseases. -
1770 BCE
Bridge
Abraham Darby III builds a pioneering iron bridge at a place now called Ironbridge in England. -
1703 BCE
Binary code
Gottfried Leibniz pioneers the binary number system now used in virtually all computers. -
1700 BCE
Piano
Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano. -
1687 BCE
Laws of motion
Isaac Newton formulates his three laws of motion. -
1650 BCE
Pendulum Clock
Christiaan Huygens develops the pendulum clock -
1609 BCE
Telescope
Galileo Galilei builds a practical telescope and makes new astronomical discoveries. -
1600 BCE
Thermometer
Galileo Galilei designs a basic thermometer. -
1590 BCE
Microscopes
A Dutch spectacle maker named Zacharias Janssen makes the first compound microscope. -
1530 BCE
Navigation
Gerardus Mercator helps to revolutionize navigation with better mapmaking. -
1450 BCE
Printing
Johannes Gutenberg pioneers the modern printing press, using rearrangeable metal letters. -
Gas Powered Tractor
John Froelich started agriculture mechanization.
