Top 10 Inventions Of All Time

An important part of human nature is aspiration for progress. A man changes the environment with scientific and technical innovations. Everyday, a new patent is introduced somewhere in the world. Some inventions were invented long time ago and made our lives so much easier, that we got used to them as if the nature itself had made them. For example, we use our computers everyday, check the mail and make contacts with people throughout the world, in a few minutes, not being aware of the one who enabled us to do that.

10. The Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell while experimenting with "harmonic telegraph" discovered he could hear the sound of a twanging clock spring over a wire on June 2nd 1875. March 10, 1876 brought the greatest success to Bell - the  birth of the telephone, as well as the death of the multiple telegraph.

9. The Steam Engine
A military engineer and inventor Thomas Savery, patented the first steam engine in 1893 and demonstrated it to the "Royal Society" on 14 June 1699. The steam engine was described  in his book "An Engine to Raise Water by Fire"

8.  Wireless Energy
Wireless energy is defined as a Transmission of electrical energy from a power source to an electrical load without wires in 1893. Nikola Tesla demonstrated wireless energy transfer to power electronic devices. A lot of aspirations on intercontinental wireless transmission of industrial power can be found in his unfinished "Wardenclyffe Tower" project.

7. Antibiotics
In 1877 Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch observed that an airborne bacillus could inhibit the growth of Bacillus anthracis and that process was named antibiosis. Later on, In 1928, Alexander Fleming observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus 'Penicillium'. Prontosil was The first commercially available antibacterial antibiotic and it was developed by Gerhard Domagk and his research team in 1932. He recieved the 1939 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his efforts.

6. The Internet
Donald Davies, Leonard Kleinrock, Paul Baran, J.C.R. Licklider, Lawrence Roberts and other scientists were the ones who started thinking about the way to create a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could easily and quickly access data and programs from any site. The dream came true and Internet began in 1962. The term INTERNET was invented later.

5. The Laser
Albert Einstein established the theoretic foundations for the laser in 1917. Gordon Gould published the term LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) in 1959. The first time the functioning laser was operated was in May 1960.

4. The Television
John Logie Baird was inventor of the world's first practical television system. He was the one who demonstrated the transmission of moving silhouette images in London in 1925. BBC transmitted the world's first public regular high definition service from the Victorian Alexandra Palace in north London in 1935.

3. The Plane
The first successful test flights were made by The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur on 17 December 1903. The Wright Flyer III was capable to perform fully controllable stable flight for substantial periods By 1905. The first person to exceed the speed of sound was Chuck Yeager in 1945.

2. The Printing Press
The books were  hand-written until Gutenberg built his revolutionary printing press in 1439. They were very expensive since it was very difficult and time-consuming to create and to copy them. All of that made them limited to personal notes and to very important texts, mostly on religion or science.

1. The Computer
The machine that we can't picture modern world without. Everything started long time ago when Blaise Pascal started working on mechanical calculator. It took three years and 50 prototypes until he got the perfect one. The computing hardware was developed through evolution of machines with separate manual action  in order to perform arithmetic operations, following punched card machines and finally stored-program computers. Stored program computers started as computer architecture as an organization of units to perform input and output up to store data and operation as an integrated mechanism.