It really needs no introduction: The global system of interconnected computer networks known as the Internet is used by billions of pe...
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Penicillin
It is onee of the most famous discovery stories in history. In 1928, the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-filled P...
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The light bulb
When all you have is natural light, productivity is limited to daylight hours. Light bulbs changed the world by allowing us to be active...
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The telephone
Though several inventors did pioneering work on electronic voice transmission (many of whom later filed intellectual property lawsuits wh...
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The internal combustion engine
In these engines, the combustion of a fuel releases a high-temperature gas, which, as it expands, applies a force to a piston, moving it....
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