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INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED
YOUR WORLD
You may think you can’t live without your tablet computer and your
cordless electric drill, but what about the inventions that came before
them? Humans have been innovating since the dawn of time to get us to
where we are today. Here are just 10 of the hundreds of inventions hat
profoundly changed your world. What else would be on your list?
Stone tools were humanity’s earliest technology, invented more than 2
million years ago by
Homo habilis
, an early human ancestor. The
simplest implements, known to their discoverers as "choppers," were
sharpened stones made by smashing one stone against another. This
clever (if crude) multi-tool could be used for cutting, sawing, crushing,
or smashing. Without this innovation, humanity would have never
known the spork.
The first successful photograph, the daguerreotype, was invented by
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce in the 1830s.
Niépce’s first attempt needed 8 hours exposure time—Daguerre’s
needed 20 or 30 minutes. Now, of course, we can take photos of anything
we want, anytime, instantly.
While some musical instruments have been around for centuries (the
oldest flute is thought to be at least 35,000 years old!) the saxophone is a
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