Top 10 Inventions That Changed the World

Here are the top 10 inventions that changed the world:

1. The Internet: The Internet facilitates and affects nearly every aspect of modern life. It serves as the foundation for modern communication and has made access to information much easier. People can now access vast amounts of information from anywhere.

2. The Computer: It is almost impossible to imagine our world without computers, as computers have become electronic devices of every-day use for many people. From banking, medical science, education, weather predictions, and many more areas, computers have helped create significant increases in worker productivity and business efficiency.

3. The Telephone: The telephone expanded and simplified communication and allowed for people to communicate real-time from across the world. The various developments of the telephone, such as the cellphone and potentially others in the future, could potentially bring about even faster methods of communication.

4. The Wheel: Although the wheel was invented over 5000 years ago, its influences on today’s more advanced society cannot be ignored. Pottery wheels helped create vessels to transport food and water. Later on, wheels were used in transportation and as gears, which allowed for the invention of mechanical devices such as clocks, and helped bring about the Industrial Revolution.

5. Refrigeration: While refrigeration may not exactly be an obviously world-changing invention, it is arguably one of the most important inventions in terms of food safety and overall public health. Almost every household in the world needs a device to store their food to prevent it from spoiling and causing disease. Without the refrigerator, an enormous amount of food would go to waste every day. We are all heavily dependent on refrigeration for our daily food consumption.

6. Electricity: Electricity is a highly efficient form of energy. It is created without loss and pollution and is very easy to distribute relative to other forms of energy. It powers many of our modern conveniences, such as light in rooms, fans, and domestic appliances. In the future, electricity will hopefully power the energy-efficient products of the future.

7. Compass: The compass helped make sea travel possible all year long and even in adverse weather conditions. In the 15^th and 16^th centuries, the compass was the main tool that allowed for reliable sea transportation and the development of global trading patterns.

8. Numbers: The number system created by Indian scholars almost 2000 years ago and later adopted by the rest of the world is the reason why we are able to do arithmetic and computations. The concept of numbers is a very profound idea that has allowed for the creation of mathematics and the development of the sciences and even computing.

9. Anesthesia: Anesthesia is a very important tool for surgery and prevents pain for the patient undergoing the operation. Without this, modern health care would simply not exist like it does today, as doctors would not be able to operate on a fully-conscious person, especially for very complicated and intense surgeries.

10. Internal Combustion Engine: The internal combustion engine made the personal transportation society uses today possible and also brought about the mechanization of many agricultural processes. This allowed for the faster and more efficient production of food for a growing population in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. Our modern forms of transportation would not be possible without this invention.

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On a rainy winter day during the Christmas Break of my junior year of high school, I observed a strange sight on my front lawn - with rain pouring down, the automatic sprinklers were on wasting water! With my sense of logic disturbed by this occurrence, I started to think about solutions that could prevent this unnecessary waste of water. Soon, I began to explore possible applications of sensors and electronic circuits I had learned in my physics class to help solve this problem. In my free time during the following weeks, I constructed an electronic circuit that shuts off the sprinkler timer with a simple sponge as a rain sensor. After putting together a working prototype, I successfully integrated it to the sprinkler timer. A few days later, I witnessed the sprinklers shutting themselves off as soon as a few drops of rain fell from the sky! Encouraged by this thrilling success, I began to explore how I could share my efforts in saving energy with the rest of the world. As I sold a few of these “Rain Sensors” to neighbors, my entrepreneurial spirit led me to co-found the company AllGreenTech (www.allgreentech.com) to research and develop energy-saving ideas and products for all aspects of everyday life.

During the last four years since co-founding AllGreenTech, I have diligently managed the company’s operations and finances, expanded product offerings, and raised funding to supplement the revenue from the “Rain Sensor” product. AllGreenTech has obtained a pending U.S. patent (No. 61/699,261) titled “Backup and secondary methods to eliminate the waste of energy when the primary energy shutoff mechanism fails to function completely.” Efforts to sell this patent for licensing income are underway. 

While I was working on the patent mentioned above, I came to know many aspects of the patenting process. This includes how to come up with new patentable ideas, how to evaluate whether an idea is patentable, and how to do patent research. In addition, I also worked with a patent attorney who helped me with the paperwork for filing my patent application. This whole process was intriguing and interesting, and I want to learn more details about it. This is the main reason I am taking this class. Hopefully, this class will provide much more insight into the patenting process for me.

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