Most Important Discoveries of all time

Most Important Discoveries of all time

 

The List

 

We have researched across multiple platforms including inputs form scientists, historians, and technologists to rank the top innovations since the reported time. Here are obtained results.

 

Sun starts producing heat and light energy.	4–5 billion years ago
	1–2 million years ago	Discovery of fire.
Humans invent the wheel.	3500 BCE
	1000 BCE	Iron Age begins: iron is widely used for making tools and weapons in many parts of the world.
Ts'ai Lun makes the first paper in China.	105 CE
	1609	Galileo Galilei builds a practical telescope and makes new astronomical discoveries.
Isaac Newton formulates his three laws of motion.	1687
	1700s	Christiaan Huygens conceives the internal combustion engine, but never actually builds one.
Italian Alessandro Volta makes the first battery (known as a Voltaic pile).	1800
	1820s– 1830s	Michael Faraday builds primitive electric generators and motors.
James Clerk Maxwell figures out that radio waves must exist and sets out basic laws of electromagnetism.	1860s
	1876	Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone, though the true ownership of the invention remains controversial even today.
Thomas Edison patents the modern incandescent electric lamp.	1880
	1885	Karl Benz builds a gasoline-engine car.
Nikola Tesla patents the alternating current (AC) electric induction motor.	1888
	1890s	German engineer Rudolf Diesel develops his diesel engine—a more efficient internal combustion engine without a sparking plug.
Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky figures out the theory of space rockets.	1890s
	1903	Innovation of first Airplane
lbert Einstein explains Special theory of relativity.	1905
	1905	Albert Einstein explains theory of relativity & mass energy equivalence E=mc2
Albert Einstein explains photo electric effect.	1905
	1906	Willis Carrier pioneers the air conditioner.
John Logie Baird develops mechanical television.	1920s
	1920s	Philo T. Farnsworth invents modern electronic television.
Penicillin was discovered	1928
	1939	Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner discover Nuclear fission
Soviet Union (Russia and her allies) launch the Sputnik space satellite.	1957
	1960s	Invention of Internet
Astronauts walk on the Moon.	1969
	1998	Larry Page Sergey Brin introduces Google search engine

 

These are some of the major discoveries which had the momentum to change our world. Please let us know in the comments your inclusions to the list.