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Kyle Polak's List: Top 10 inventions of the last 200 years

  • Mar 02, 12

    a. It allows people to move without walking.
    b. The uses are to move people or move objects.
    c. It replaced walking, the train, the horse and buggy.
    d. It was the springboard for more advanced automobiles.
    e. It allows people to move wherever they please.
    f. People are hurt in automobile accidents quite frequently.

    inventors.about.com/...Car_History.htm

      • Automobile

    • By definition an automobile or car is a wheeled vehicle that carries its own motor and transports passengers. The automobile as we know it was not invented in a single day by a single inventor

  • Mar 02, 12

    a. It allows people to communicate over vast distances.
    b. It is used to gather information and to communicate
    c. It replaced using postal systems and news traveling by word of mouth.
    d. No
    e. It has made people all over the world become connected in one single network.
    f. People have become lazy, creepy, or just plain stupid over the Internet.

    www.internetsociety.org/...brief-history-internet

      • The Internet

    • The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before

  • Mar 02, 12

    a. It allows for the removal of waste.
    b. It removes human waste from the home.
    c. It replaced the outhouse or the pit in your backyard.
    d. It was the springboard for automatic toilets.
    e. It allows humans to efficiently remove their waste from where people live.
    f. No

    inventors.about.com/...Plumbing_3.htm

      • Toilet/Plumbing

    • A toilet is a plumbing fixture used for defecation and urination. Modern toilets consist of a bowl fitted with a hinged seat and are connected to a waste pipe where waste is flushed

  • Mar 02, 12

    a. It allows people to communicate quicker.
    b. The uses for this are communicating over a distance.
    c. It replaced the telegraph.
    d. It was the springboard for cell phones.
    e. It allows people to communicate from anywhere in the world.
    f. Telephones make it easier for people to just communicate without seeing each other.

    inventors.about.com/...telephone.htm

      • Telephone

    • Bell's greatest success was achieved on March 10, 1876, marked not only the birth of the telephone but the death of the multiple telegraph as well. The communications potential contained in his demonstration of being able to "talk with electricity" far outweighed anything that simply increasing the capability of a dot-and-dash system could imply

  • Mar 02, 12

    a. Allows people to move things quicker and easier.
    b. It is used in cars, gears, everything.
    c. It replaced simple man power.
    d. It was the springboard for the bicycle, the car, etc.
    e. We wouldn't be able to move around quickly without it.
    f. No

    inventors.about.com/...wheel.htm

      • The wheel

    • Humans realized that heavy objects could be moved easier if something round, for example a fallen tree log, was placed under it and the object rolled over it.

  • Mar 02, 12

    a. It has provided cures for disease.
    b. The uses are to help cure disease.
    c. It replaced using leeches and such to help cure disease.
    d. It was the springboard for more antibiotics.
    e. It has allowed many more people to survive various diseases.
    f. Not as many people die so the population is getting out of hand.

    inventors.about.com/...Penicillin_2.htm

    • The search for antibiotics began in the late 1800s, with the growing acceptance of the germ theory of disease, a theory which linked bacteria and other microbes to the causation of a variety of ailments. As a result, scientists began to devote time to searching for drugs that would kill these disease-causing bacteria.
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