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The ideas that changed everything, and who found them.
Wheel and axle3500 BC
Library of Alexandria290 BC
Al-Jabr (algebra)820
Movable-type printing press1440
Refracting telescope1608
Royal Society1660
Principia (Newton)1687
Separate condenser steam engine1769
Photosynthesis1779
Atomic theory1803
Evolution by natural selection1859
Mendel's laws of inheritance1866
X-rays1895
Wright Flyer1903
General relativity1915
Quantum mechanics1925
Pluto1930
Nuclear fission1938
Transistor1947
Double helix1953
Contraceptive pill1960
Magnetic resonance imaging1973
Global Positioning System1978
Fermat's Last Theorem1995