15/50 Started 2 Millennia Ago
Beer and wine.
Brass, iron, nails, steel; steel alloys, Bessemer process.
Bricks, cement, concrete, asphalt; reinforced concrete.
Compass; marine chronometer.
Domesticated horses and animals.
Farming.
Fire; fire extinguishers.
Language, writing, alphabet.
Paper.
Plow; steel plow.
Ships, sailboats.
Swords, weapons, gunpowder, matches; gatling gun.
Tools.
Waterpower, water control, indoor plumbing, toilets, drainage, aqueducts.
Wheel, chariot, water wheel; pneumatic tires.
Circa 1000 – 1500
Mechanical clocks and watches.
Paper currency; ATM (1950).
Printing press, movable type, linotype, typewriter.
Lenses, mirror, microscope, telescope, magnifying glass.
Circa 1800
Electricity generation, turbines, batteries, electric motors.
Steam engine, turbine.
Internal combustion engine, automobile, tractor.
Railroad, locomotive.
Anesthesia.
Distilled oil products, diesel, kerosene and gasoline.
Telephone.
Circa 1900
Airplane
Automobile
Camera; digital camera
Electric light bulb; fluorescent, LCD, LED
Moving pictures
Phonograph
Radio
Refrigeration
Vaccines
Medical diagnostics: X-Ray; MRI, CT scan
Antibiotics, penicillin
Circa 1950
Electronic computer, Turing machine, personal computer; after arithmetical machines, abacus and slide rule.
Contraceptives
Geographical positioning system, (GPS) and mapping.
Vacuum tubes, integrated circuits, semiconductors and microprocessors.
Nuclear fission, fusion, power and bombs.
Television.
Circa 2000
Genetics, gene editing, DNA.
Mobile phone networks, infrastructure and personal devices.
Internet communications network.
World wide web addressing structure.
Artificial intelligence.
Smartphones.
Summary
The greatest technical innovations of humanity cover a broad range of life: food/cooking, construction, travel, transport, household, finance, science, power, medicine, entertainment and calculation.
We have a dozen major inventions in both of the 19th and 20th centuries. Change appears to be accelerating…
https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/greatest-inventions-past-1000-years
https://startupguide.com/the-40-greatest-innovations-of-all-time
https://www.livescience.com/33749-top-10-inventions-changed-world.html
https://bigthink.com/the-present/inventions/
‘https://www.cadcrowd.com/blog/top-100-famous-inventions-and-greatest-ideas-of-all-time/
https://www.history.com/news/11-innovations-that-changed-history
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inventions-what-are-the-10-greatest-of-our-time/
https://interestingengineering.com/lists/19-great-inventions-that-revolutionized-history
https://interestingengineering.com/lists/35-inventions-that-changed-the-world
https://pickvisa.com/blog/best-inventions-in-the-world
https://www.inc.com/paul-grossinger/what-are-the-25-greatest-inventions-of-all-time.html
‘https://techengage.com/top-tech-innovations-in-history/#2-pascaline-1642
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/worlds-greatest-inventions.html
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