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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Top 10 All Time Best Inventions


1. Stone tools, by Homo habilis some 2 million years agoStone tools

2. Dageurreotype (the first successful photograph), by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1839old_camera
3. Saxophone (combining a reed mouthpiece with a brass bell),  by Antoine-Joseph Sax in 1842Curved_Soprano_Saxophone

4. Bessemer process ( made steel cheap and plentiful), by Henry Bessemer in 1856
Bessemerprocess

5. Celluloid (the first plastic), by John Wesley Hyatt in 1870
6. Edison cylinder phonograph (brought music to the masses), by Thomas Alva Edison in 1877edison_amberol3
7. Wright flyer of 1903 (showed flight could be controlled), by Wilbur and Orville Wright in 1903Wright flyer

8. Iconoscope television camera and Kinescope receiver (made electronic television possible), by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin in the 1920sIconoscope television camera and Kinescope receiver

9. Integrated circuit (made modern electronics possible), by Jack Kilby in 1958Integrated-Circuit
10. Apple II personal computer (started the PC revolution), by Stephen Wozniak in 1977Apple II personal computer

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