Top 50 Inventions of our Time

My mom brought home a list of the top 50 inventions of our time last night and I was curious as to what inventions made the list. She said she got it from one of the website she was browsing. Just thought I’d share it:

· TV Remote Control
· Microwave Oven
· Polio Vaccine
· Three-point seatbelt
· Birth-control Pill
· Jet Airliner
· Laser Beam
· Super Glue
· Float Glass
· Cordless Tools
· Industrial Robot
· Communications Satellite
· Video Games
· LED
· Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
· Music Synthesizer
· High-Yield Rice
· Smoke Detector
· Charge-coupled Device
· Digital Music
· Waffle-sole Running Shoes
· Computer Mouse
· Automated Teller Machine
· Cellphone
· In-vitro Fertilization
· Sony Walkman
· Electronic Ignition
· MRI
· GPS
· Genetic Engineering
· Scanning Tunneling Microscope
· DNA Fingerprinting
· Polymerase Chain Reaction
· Prozac
· Genetic Sequencing
· MP3 Player
· IEEE 802.16
· Fuel Cell Vehicle
· Hybrid-Electric Car
· Integrated Circuit
· ARPANET
· Personal Computer
· VELCRO
· Carbon-fiber Composites
· Kevlar
· Fiberoptic
· Pacemaker
· Coronary Bypass Surgery
· HIV Protease Inhibitors
· World Wide Web

If you think about it, it is quite amazing what human beings are capable of creating. I can only imagine how people of older times would react to things that are common to us such as cellphones, computers, microwave ovens, TV, mp3 players, video games, etc. People who lived well before our time would die of shock if they were to see the world today. Sometimes I think to myself I would be shocked and confused too if I were to go to the future and see what sort of gadgets would have come to exist at that point in time. I heard that somewhere they were able to invent a flying train. It works by using similar charges. The bottom of the train and tracks either have negative or positive electrons (I’m not entirely sure as this is purely based on hearsay) and the tracks are also made of the same kind of electrons. Similar to how magnets work, opposites attract and like ones repel. So if both the bottom of the train and the tracks are composed of positive charges, it would cause them to repel each other which in turn would cause the train to “float”. Again, this all based on hearsay and I haven’t done any research on it so I am not 100% sure about this story although it is quite interesting if you think about it.