The great inventions that have shaped our civilization
Here are the greatest inventions. What is great? It is an
invention that is often difficult to discover and has great importance to humans
in terms of their survival or use in everyday life. Sometimes these factors
are better appreciated when one travels to an area of the world where they
were not discovered. For
example, think what the New World would have looked like if someone had figured
out what we call the Roman arch. Yes, there was a work-around in using a trapezoidal
shape for doors and windows, but it certainly was a limiting factor when building
a bridge or aqueduct. Another obvious limitation is a written language that
facilitates the transfer and accumulation of knowledge for centuries. Lastly,
think how the wheel (and axle) is omnipresent in today's world, but it is such
a difficult concept to originate, that it probably developed only in
one place.
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List of Great Inventions
Agriculture
Air Flight
Alcohol
Architecture and Construction Technologies
Aquaculture
Aqueducts
Asphalt
Barbed Wire
Bread
Buildings and Their Technologies
Chemistry
Cities and Their Technologies
Clocks
Compass
Computers
Communication Technologies
Construction Materials
Dams
Electricity Production and Use
Electronics
Fasteners
Fire
Fisheries
Food Preservation
Formal Education
Fortifications
Glass
Gunpowder
Guns and Weapons
Household
Appliances
Internet
Knives and Other Cutters
Language: Spoken and written
Manufacturing and
Its Technologies
Mathematics and Physics
Medicine
Metallurgy
Meteorology
Money
Musical Instruments
Optics
Organization
Patent System
Plastics
Pottery
Power Engines
Power Generation
Printing press
Radio and Television
Recording: Sight and Sound
Religion
Rope and Cord
Sewers and Treatments
Scientific Method
Textiles
Time Measurement
Tools
Railroads
Scale (weight)
Ships
Space Technologies
Toilets
Transport Animals
Wheel and Axle
X-rays
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Disclaimer: Every attempt is made to be accurate and material
is generally from multiple sources or is general knowledge. However, nothing
on this website is represented as absolute fact. The history of few inventions,
even how they are described, is known with unanimity among authors. If anything,
the information on this website represents only the opinion of its creators.
