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Many Inventions (published 1893) is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Twelve of the 14 stories appeared previously in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine.
- UK and US
- June 1893
- English
- Rudyard Kipling (English)
17 de nov. de 2022 · 1. The invention of the wheel was a big deal. The wheel was a major innovation. LordRunar/iStock. The wheel is an original engineering marvel and one of the most famous inventions. This basic...
- Christopher Mcfadden
19 de jul. de 2023 · 1. Wheel. 2. Printing press. 3. Penicillin. 4. Compass. 5. Light bulb. 6. Telephone. 7. Internal combustion engine. 8. Contraceptives. 9. Internet. 10. Nails. 11. Use of fire. 12. Concrete. 13....
- Suspension Bridges
- Toilets
- The Walkman
- The Pill
- Super Soaker
- The Blood Bank
- Space Telescopes
- The Pizza Box and Pizza Table
- X-Rays
- Wildlife Cams
Suspension bridges are nothing new; there’s one in China that until recently used bamboo that’s at least 1000 years old, and may be over 2000. But the modern suspension bridges that came along in the 1800s were something else altogether: They were cheaper to build, easier to repair, and provided plenty of leeway in case of flooding. Eventually, the...
Dry and flush toilets have been around for thousands of years, and while many of us take these pieces of porcelain hardware for granted these days, there’s no doubt that life would look much different—and much worse—without them. “Toilets are the key to a thriving, healthy society,” Kimberly Worsham, sanitation expert and founder of FLUSH(Facilitat...
Though many of today’s kids didn’t know what a Walkman was until they saw Chris Pratt’s Peter Quill flaunt one in 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy, they pay unofficial homage to the device every time they play a song on their smartphone. Transistor radios had been around since the 1950s, but it was Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka who really revolutioniz...
By the end of the 19th century, bicycles were offering women a relatively cheap, easy form of independence. Their movements,and the clothing they wore, became less restricted. Decades later, a new item would hit the market and further revolutionize women’s rights: the Pill. Hormonal birth control pills (often shortened to just the Pill) weren’t the...
For decades, squirt guns were flimsy pieces of plastic that could barely muster enough power to water a houseplant. Then the first Super Soaker—then called the Power Drencher—hit the market in 1990, bringing along with it a Schwarzenegger-esque machismo and a sophisticated air-pressure system that promised to drench unsuspecting targets from far fu...
Less than a century ago, patients requiring a blood transfusion were in a race against time. There was no organized network for people to donate blood, and because blood was difficult to preserve, there was no way to store it for future use. Patients had to find their own blood donorsbefore it was too late. In 1937, after devising a technique for p...
When Lyman Spitzer proposed the invention of a space telescope in the 1940s, humans could look at our universe only through land-based instruments. Earth’s atmosphere acted like a veil between the land-based telescopes and space, blurring images and hindering detection of far-off celestial phenomena. Spitzer’s research paved the way for the Hubble ...
The pizza industry has undergone numerous innovations in recent decades, but one element that has remained largely the same is the box your pie comes in. Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan changed the game in the early 1960s when he worked with Triad Containers in Detroit to develop the modern pizza box. Prior to this, pizzas were delivered in bag...
One fall evening in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen, a German physics professor, was experimenting with the conduction of electricity through low-pressure gases when he accidentally discovereda mysterious ray capable of making a chemical-coated screen fluoresce a few yards away. He went on to put objects between the tube and the screen to see the shadows the...
The first “wildlife cams” were invented by Pennsylvania Congressman and photography enthusiast George Shiras around the end of the 19th century. He got the idea from a hunting technique used by the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, in which a fire is built in a pan and placed in the front part of a canoe while the hunter sits in the bow. “The glow ...
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 that profoundly changed your world. What else would be on your list?
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
30 de mar. de 2023 · Top 10 innovations. Printing press. Light bulb. Airplane. Personal computer. Vaccines. Automobile. Clock. Telephone. Refrigeration. Camera. The U.S. librarian of Congress ranks history's most...
20 de oct. de 2022 · The Most Famous Inventions the Past 69 Years Have Given Us. Between the 1950s and today, scientific and technological innovations have revolutionized the lives we lead, from the hospital to outer...
