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1. The turning point at which knowledge began freely replicating and quickly assumed a life of its own | |
2. And then there was light (and Nos. 4, 9, 16, 24, 28, 44, 45, and most of the rest of modern life | |
3. Accidentally discovered, it led to the silver bullet for any number of formerly deadly diseases | |
4. The physical foundation of the virtual world | |
5. Raised the collective human IQ, and eventually led to the creation of the microscope and the telescope | |
6. 'The idea of stamping images is natural if you have ___, but until then, it's economically unaffordable' | |
7. Turned air and fuel into power, eventually replacing No. 10 | |
8. Edward Jenner showed that making someone sick could prevent further sickness | |
9. The infrastructure of the digital age | |
10. Powered the factories, trains, and ships that drove the Industrial Revolution | |
11. Fritz Haber won a Nobel Prize for his development of this process, which was used to create a new class of fertilizers central to No. 22 | |
12. A major reason we live 40 years longer than we did in 1880 | |
13. Would change the way we eat—and live—almost as profoundly as discovering how to cook | |
14. Outsourced killing to a machine | |
15. Transformed travel, warfare, and our view of the world | |
16. Like No. 48 and No. 43, it augmented human capabilities | |
17. Oriented us, even at sea | |
18. Transformed daily life, our culture and our landscape | |
19. The basis of modern industry, made possible by the Bessemer process | |
20. Launched a social and sexual revolution | |
21. Gave humans new power for destruction, and creation | |
22. Combining technologies like No. 11 and No. 38, it hugely increased the world's food output | |
23. It made maps out of stars | |
24. Allowed our voices to travel | |
25. Made knowledge accessible and searchable | |
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26. Before it, information could move no faster than a man on horseback | |
27. It quantified time | |
28. The first demonstration of electronic mass media's power to spread ideas and homogenize culture | |
29. Changed journalism, art, culture and how we see ourselves. | |
30. It not only dug soil up, but turned it over, allowing for the cultivation of harder ground | |
31. One of the first water pumps, it transformed irrigation | |
32. Institutionalized an industry —and, unfortunately, slavery—in the American South | |
33. One of the first practical applications of germ theory, one of history's most effective public-health interventions | |
34. Jumped ahead 10 days to synchronize the world with the seasons | |
35. Without it, No. 39 would be pointless | |
36. The backbone of today's energy infrastructure, they generate 80 percent of the world's power | |
37. The foundation of civilization. Literally. | |
38. It wasn't until early 20th C. scientists discovered a forgotten 1866 paper by Gregor Mendel that we figured out how ___ —and later on human genetics—worked | |
39. Fueled the modern economy, established its geopolitics, and changed the climate | |
40. Transformed travel, warfare, and our view of the world | |
41. 'Our only way off the planet—so far' | |
42. The abstraction at the core of the modern economy | |
43. One of the first devices to augment human intelligence | |
44. Would you start a business in Houston or Bangalore without it? | |
45. Brought the world into people's homes | |
46. 'The fierce extremity of suffering has been steeped in the waters of forgetfulness' | |
47. Extended lives by enabling people to build shelter | |
48. A simple machine the Egyptians relied upon to build the pyramids | |
49. Turned a craft-based economy into a mass-market one | |
50. Mechanized the farm | |
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