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POPULAR SCIENCE 100 INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Contents Introduction The Stuff of Science Velcro Gunpowder Dynamite Teflon Fertilizer Silicone Plastic Carbon Nanotubes Spreading Ideas Internet Fiber Optics Corporation Holography Alphabet Pencil and Pen Camera Phonograph Graphical User Interface Videotape Television Electric Guitar Printing Press Virtual Reality Telegraph Morse Code Computer Video Games Satellite Telephone Abacus Paper Radio Calculus Arabic Numerals The Body In Vitro Fertilization Anesthetic Penicillin Brassiere Kevlar Jeans Vaccination The Pill CT Scan X-ray Pacemaker Electrocardiogram (ECG, EKG) Hypodermic Needle Condom Stethoscope Pasteurization Cloning Things That Go Automobile Jet Engine Stealth Aircraft Wheel Shipping Container Compass Sonar Drone Locomotive Guided Missile Submarine Saturn V Radar Making Something Out of Nothing Moving Assembly Line Ball Bearing Screw Nail 3-D Printing Windmill Cement Steel Nuclear Reactor Steel Skyscraper Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) Atomic Bomb Steam Engine Wastewater Treatment Oil Refining Internal Combustion Engine Game-Changing Gadgets Laser Transistor RFID Lightbulb Zipper Microcontroller Optical Sensor Capacitor Telescope Microscope Battery Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Alternating Current Clock Gregorian Calendar Mechanical Reaper Cotton Gin Refrigeration Remote Control Rifle Flush Toilet Index Credits Great inventions can come about by accident—a burst of information or slow, plodding experimentation— but all at some point must be fleshed out on paper if the promise of their potential is to be fulfilled and duplicated for the future. Examples of some of those drawings include (clockwise from top left) Watt’s steam engine, Whitney’s cotton gin, Stephenson’s locomotive engine, Edison’s phonograph, Jacob’s brassiere, Volta’s battery, and da Vinci’s helicopter. Introduction Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple and one of the greatest innovators of our time, once said, “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.” Jobs knew what he was talking about. History’s greatest innovators stand on the shoulders of those who have come before. Using discoveries that were hard-won or accidentally uncovered, inventors have changed the way we live by working passionately to connect the dots and make sense of the world around us. Today, the modern men and women of innovation continue to analyze past technology in pursuit of the advancements that will define our future. Where will computers go from here? How can we leverage progress with the needs of an increasingly globalized community, and what will trigger the next medical breakthrough? These and many more unanswered questions continue to inspire some of the greatest minds of our time. The inventions on the following pages illustrate the courage, resilience, and innovation of the human spirit, while simultaneously suggesting the challenges that remain. Perhaps, most importantly, the advancements listed here also demonstrate how a single spark of brilliance can touch us all. Writer William Arthur Ward once said, “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.” All these inventions began in someone’s imagination, but it is their achievement that truly changed the world. Chapter 1
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