INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Good morning mam and class. Today I am going to be speaking about inventions that changed the
world.

Humans see challenges and immediately start thinking of ways to fix them whether it’s in the
community, at work, at school, or at home by creating a new tool or technology. Throughout
time there have been lots of new inventions which have both hindered and helped everyday life
with humans. There are many different possible world’s greatest inventions because they have
all helped out humankind in some way, some more than others

These are some of my favourite interventions that revolutionized the world.

1. The compass. Ancient mariners navigated by the stars, but that method didn't work during the
day or on cloudy nights, and so it was unsafe to voyage far from land. The Chinese invented the
first compass sometime between the 9th and 11th century; it was made of lodestone

2. The light bulb. Two dozen people were involved in inventing incandescent lamps throughout
the 1800s; Thomas Edison is credited as the primary inventor because he created a completely
functional lighting system, including a generator and wiring as well as a carbon-filament bulb like
the one above, in 1879.
3. The internet. Countless people helped develop it, but the person most often credited with its
invention is the computer scientist Lawrence Roberts. In the 1960s, a team of computer
scientists working for the U.S. Defense Department's ARPA (Advanced Research Projects
Agency) built a communications network to connect the computers in the agency.
4. The telephone. Though several inventors did pioneering work on electronic voice transmission
Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone in 1876.
The invention quickly took off, and revolutionized global business and communication. When
Bell died on Aug. 2, 1922, according to PBS, U.S. telephone service stopped for a minute to
honor him.
5. The wheel The wheel was invented by Mesopotanians around 3500 BC, which they intended to
be used for pottery. About 300 years later the wheel was attached to a chariot, making a
fundamental impact in transportation and agriculture and industry.
6. Penicillin – In 1928, at St Mary’s Hospital, a Scottish physician, Alexander Flemming, discovered
penicillin. This great discovery lead to the transformation of medicine by it ability to cure
infectious diseases it began the era of antibiotics and remains one of the leading recommended
antibiotics today.

There are several inventions that revolutionized the world over. Today I have just mentioned
a few that I feel impacted our lives so deeply. I do hope you have enjoyed my talk today.