The 71 Most Amazing Innovations of all time

1. Do you know the meaning of BCE and CE when referred to years?
2. Which do you think comes first?
   1. the sailboat or the nail?
   2. the soap or the wheel?
   3. the first libraries or the alphabet?
   4. the modern number system from 0 to 9 or the abacus?
   5. the first mechanical clok or the compass?
   6. the telescope or the microscope?
3. Can you order in time the following inventions?
   1. the telephone
   2. the camera
   3. the television
   4. the radio
   5. the wireless telegraph
   6. the light bulb
   7. the airplane
   8. the modern car
   9. the GPS
   10. the smartphone
4. Can you match the following innovations or discoveries to these dates?
   

   1) the scientific method	a) 1854
   2) the Gregorian calendar	b) 1915
   3) boolean logic	c) 384 BCE
   4) water purification	d) 1897
   5) Einstein’s theory of general relativity	e) 1804
   6) the genome sequencing	f) 1582
   7) the electron	g) 1977
   8) the first moon landing	h) 1969

5. Which innovations do you think transformed agriculture?
6. What is considered to be the first computer ever? When was it created?
7. When and where do you think the first democracy began?
8. Which invention do you think raised dramatically the collective human IQ? When was it discovered?
9. Which invention shaped the Industrial Revolution?
10. What has prevented 21 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths in the last 20 years?
11. Which inventions made our world feel a little smaller?
12. What were satellite communications useful for in the 40s?
13. What is the Hubble telescope?
14. Now watch this video and check your answers above. Add dates.

So, all in all, what is the greatest ability possessed by humans?

[Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for sharing this video]