Here are a list of inventions which I believe have had great benefits and dramatically improved the lives of many across the globe.
- Electricity management: Managing electricity brought vast improvements in communication, commerce, and daily life. Lightbulbs were instrumental in improving individuals with a safer and more reliable way to light pathways and homes.
- Internet: The internet drastically changed the virtually every aspect of our lives, with drastic improvements in communication, commerce, access to information, and media to name a few. The internet brought individuals closer together and connected billions through online access.
- Automobiles: Automobiles allowed individuals to personally own vehicles which reduced travel times and provided improved access to areas without trains. This invention improved commerce and communication between cities.
- Printing Press: The printing press had vast implications on spreading literature and communication as well as culture. With the printing press and subsequent writers creating newspapers, individuals were able to be more informed. Important documents could now be spread with ease.
- Personal Computers: Personal computers are instrumental in providing access to the internet, and allowing advancements in information storage, word processing, education, healthcare, data management and much more. Computers allow us to manipulate large data sets with ease and improved our quality of life by making us safer and more informed.
- Refrigeration: Refrigeration provided individuals with a way to store perishable items for longer periods of time and improved the way we store and manage food. Prior to refrigeration, large ice blocks kept foods cool. Now, homes, restaurants, and packaging industries could utilize refrigeration to store items for longer.
- Airline flight: Airline flight brought a much more connected world, by allowing individuals to travel across the globe without the need of ships or automobiles. Travel times were dramatically reduced, and this invention had implications in commerce, communication, globalization, and improved our quality of life. Transcontinental travel became much easier and was brought to the masses.
- Vaccination: Vaccination has provided individuals with improvements in lifespan, quality of life, general health of citizens, and has drastically reduced the amount of deadly diseases. Without vaccinations, individuals would be affected by harmful viruses including smallpox and polio.
- The Assembly Line: The assembly line provided us with an efficient way to produce commerce and brought standardization to the marketplace. This invention improved our factories and output increased while costs declined. As such, hundreds of thousands of individuals were able to take advantage of the growing automobile industry.
- Sewage and Sanitation Systems: Sewage and sanitation systems created safer and healthier cities where citizens in major metropolitan areas would be able to achieve better quality of life. Proper sewage systems have environmental and health benefits which improve life spans and reduce the likelihood of disease.
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-Sid Moghe
