Hey everyone!

This is my third IEOR 190G Blog Post! and this week I will be reworking my selection of the 10 most innovative inventions ever!

This time I would like to talk about my reasoning a little bit as I chose inventions that not only would improve quality of life, but actually extended/saved life(s), both physically and in terms of saving time! In my opinion after life, knowledge is Humans' most precious resource which is why you can also find many inventions related to knowledge and its transmission to others.

So here is my reworked list of inventions:

• Refrigeration      
• It allowed us to conserve our aliments for more than one day enabling long distance trading of perishable goods.
• Electricity       
• Not only did electricity lead to explosive bubble of new inventions, it revolutionized our outlook on energy and its transportation.
• Penicillin          
• Has saved 82 million lives! Was the first substance that could kill bacteria whilst leaving the host relatively unharmed (at least compared to arsenic and mercury!)
• Anesthesia         
• which allowed us to perform excruciating invasive procedures that would be impossible to perform otherwise greatly transforming our healthcare scene and changing life-ending diseases to just a surgery.
• Telecommunications     
• including the telegraph and the telephone revolutionized our society by allowing us to transfer information, human's most precious resource, at unprecedented speeds.
• Internet      
• It gives us access to information coming from all the corners of the globe. Never before have we had so much information at our fingertips. Most importantly all of this information can be used in a vast multitude of applications.
• Wheel           
•  in next place as it revolutionized our transportation. Being a mobile and originally nomadic species, this new ease in transportation improved almost every aspect of our lives in society.
• Printing Press    
•  was a device used to print on paper or cloth. It revolutionized the way people perceived the world that they lived in as they finally had access to information that didnt come out of someone elses mouth! It also allowed for an easier and faster spread of information
• Sewage/Plumbing      
• is what makes modern society possible. We wouldn't be able to live on piles of dung as tall as a skyscraper (an estimate for how much waste one human produces in a year is over 1000 pounds).
• Agriculture       
• Aided our transition from being a nomadic species to a settling one. Agriculture gave us more time in the day to act and evolve rather than worry about where we were to find our next meal for fear of starvation.

Feel free to watch my video presentation at the following link! :)

http://youtu.be/aVCc8lpgaMY