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TOP 10 Inventions in Human History

The document lists the 10 greatest inventions in history according to their impact on human civilization. Number 10 is the Internet, which has connected the world in both helpful and harmful ways. Number 9 is the magnetic compass, which aided exploration and trade but also linked cultures in harmful and beneficial ways. Number 8 is penicillin, the first antibiotic discovered in 1928, which revolutionized medicine and saved millions of lives by treating bacterial infections.

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TOP 10 Inventions in Human History

The document lists the 10 greatest inventions in history according to their impact on human civilization. Number 10 is the Internet, which has connected the world in both helpful and harmful ways. Number 9 is the magnetic compass, which aided exploration and trade but also linked cultures in harmful and beneficial ways. Number 8 is penicillin, the first antibiotic discovered in 1928, which revolutionized medicine and saved millions of lives by treating bacterial infections.

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The tenth and youngest entry in our list has already had some of the most far-reaching consequences

linking the
world together in a way never before imagined, the internet has provided platforms for all manner of human
connection and giving rise to uses both helpful and harmful, you don’t need to hear more, do you after all you found
your way here.

Number 9 is the magnetic compass, though mariners have always had the stars to rely on for navigations, there were
no help on overcast nights or during storms, the invention of the compass was a milestone for exploration, travel and
trade linking remote cultures together in ways both harmful and beneficial.

Number 8 is penicillin, discovered by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming in 1928, the first antibiotic drug,
penicillin changed human medicine forever giving rise to new types of antibiotics and helping to obliterate a whole
range of previously deadly bacterial infections and diseases, penicillin alone has saved an estimated 80 million to
200 million lives.

Number 7, our seventh entries a bright light on our list today and one that it’s difficult to think of living without
many engineers were working on incandescent lamps in the early 20 th century but its Thomas Edison who created a
design that was cheap, strong and long lasting, making electric lightning a staple of modern life, for the first time in
human history. The workday was not entirely dependent upon the natural light of the sun or the use of coal and oil.

Number 6 on our list is the steam engine which came into being at the end of the 1600s by the mid of 1700s and it
had completely revolutionized sea travel and factory production, serving is one of the main drivers of the industrial
revolution while there’s evidence of steam engines dating as far back as the 1 st century AD in Roman Egypt,
widespread use of steam power was spearheaded by Thomas Savery, Thomas Newcomen and James Watt just a few
centuries back.

Number 5, Computer, computational machines date back to the mid-1600s with Philosophers Blaise Pascal and
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, each inventing mechanical calculators capable of basic arithmetic, the father of modern
computer however is Charles Babbage, who proposed the creation of an analytical engine in 1822 (invented between
1822 and 1950), well his project never came to fruition, it laid the groundwork for later innovators like John Von
Neumann in the early 1940s, today computers effectively run the world, we all carry them around with us in our
pockets and even wear them on our wrists.

Number 4, Firearms, Mayo’s dog famously said that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun whether he’s
correct or not, no invention has so radically changed human warfare as black-powder weapons, the fourth entry on
our list their relative ease of use and ability to kill at a distance rendered much traditional weaponry obsolete and
guns have been reshaping war ever since, the modern gun can trace its lineage all the way back to 11 th century AD
China where the earliest fire lances were used.

Number 3 (Steel-invented ca. 1,800 B.C) in our list is a giant , but one many people may not think of it still may
lack the flash of some of the other entries but this iron carbon alloy is largely responsible for the technological boom
over the past 200 years and is the bedrock of every modern city steel which dates back some 4000 years has always
been highly prized as building material and for high quality weapons as it has greater strength of hardness than older
metals such as bronze or simple iron.

Number 2 Printing Press, the penultimate entry on our list is has deeply and personally affected more lives than
perhaps any other modern invention, the discovery of quick and efficient means of printing(invented by Bi Sheng in
1045 A.D, China and Johann Gutenberg 1450 A.D, Europe/Germany) and allowed for the spread of ideas and
culture unprecedented fashion while the impact was felt more slowly in the Far East, Gutenberg’s printing press hit
Europe like a bolt of lightning paving the way for the renaissance and enlightenment as people begin to read and
question for themselves.

Number 1 the wheel (invented CA. 3500 B.C), when it comes right down to it, the simplest ideas are always the best
while it may seem obvious in hindsight it took human beings quite some time to get the wheel right by the time it
appeared on the scene around 3500 B.C, human beings were already forging metal alloys, building ships and
creating canals, the most difficult aspect building a workable wheel is fitting the axle to the spinning cylinder in
such a way that it spins freely but doesn’t fall off, once they figured it out thought the transportation of goods and
people would never be the same and it’s still working for us today as they say no need to reinvent it so there you
have it, the 10 inventions that have had the greatest impact on the way we live, spanning over the past four thousand
years.

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