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GREAT INVENTORS & THEIR CREATIONS

10 INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Printing Press (1450) • The printing press revolutionised the accessibility and proliferation of knowledge

Telescope (1609) • The most important tool in astronomy, it has broadened humanity’s knowledge of the universe

Steam Engine (1712) • Allowing for items to be manufactured on a large scale, the steam engine opened up incredible possibilities

Plastic (1856) • From celluloid and Bakelite to nylon and PVC, plastics have many uses

Telephone (1876) • The invention that changed communication forever

Airplane (1903) • How the Wright brothers designed and flew the first heavier-than-air vehicle

Television (1926) • From humble origins to the most popular entertainment appliance on Earth, the television has connected societies and disseminated information

Touch screens (1965) • Altering how we interact with the world, they allow direct control of information appliances

GPS (1973) • Without it, we’d be lost

The Internet and WWW (1960s & 1989) • How global communication became simple, easy and instantaneous

Archimedes (c.287 BCE–c.212 BCE)

Block and tackle

al-Jazarī (1136–1206)

The influence of islamic scholars

Johannes Gutenberg (c.1400–3 February 1468)

Rotary printing press

Leonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452–2 May 1519)

Leonardo’s military inventions

Hans Lipperhey (1570 – September 1619)

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)

Cornelius Drebbel (1572–October 1633)

The development of thermometers

Benjamin Franklin (17 January 1706–17 April 1790)

Researches in electricity

James Watt (19 January 1736–25 August 1819)

The lunar society

Nicéphore Niépce (7 March 1765–5 July 1833)

Louis Daguerre (1787–1851)

Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771–22 April 1833)

The rainhill trials

Michael Faraday (22 September 1791–25 August 1867)

James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)

Charles Babbage (26 December 1791–18 October 1871)

Analytical engine

Joseph Lister (5 April 1827–10 February 1912)

Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865)

Alfred Nobel (21 October 1833–10 December 1896)

The big idea

Karl Benz (25 November 1844–4 April 1929)

Henry Ford (1863–1947)

Thomas Edison (11 February 1847–18 October 1931)

The phonograph

Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847–2 August 1922)

Elisha Gray (1831-1901)

George Eastman (12 July 1854–14 March 1932)

The Brownie

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856–7 January 1943)

War of currents

Auguste and Louis Lumière (19 October 1862–10 April 1954 and 5 October 1864–6 June 1948)

Pioneers of motion pictures

Wilbur and Orville Wright (16 April 1867–30 May 1912 & 19 August 1871–30 January 1948)

Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896)

Guglielmo Marconi (25 April 1874–20 July 1937)

Lee De Forest (1873–1961)

Carl Bosch (27 August 1874–26 April 1940)

Fertilizers

Vladimir Zworykin (30 July 1889–29 July 1982)

Television pioneers

Juan de la Cierva (21 September 1895–9 December 1935)

Helicopters

Wernher von Braun (23 March 1912–16 June 1977)

Early spaceflight pioneers

Alan Turing (23 June 1912–7 June 1954)

The central processing unit

Gertrude Elion (23 January 1918–21 February 1999)

Transplant surgery

Tim Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955)

Doug Engelbart (1925–2013)

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