Inventions That Changed The World

Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick was a German ophthalmologist. He was the nephew of the German physiologist Adolf Eugen Fick, and the son of the German anatomy professor Franz Ludwig Fick.

He invented several devices including a ventilator, a pneumatic trough and surgical forceps for the removal of bladder stones.

In 1983, it became the first commercially available handheld cellular mobile phone.

It was first invented in China during the Han dynasty between the 2nd Century B.C. and 1st Century A.D. It was made of lodestone, a naturally-magnetized iron ore.

The first true antibiotic was discovered by Alexander Fleming, a professor of Bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital in London. It is one of the first and still one of the most widely used antibiotic agents.

The wooden wheel is estimated to be between 5,100 to 5,350 years old. It is believed to have been part of a two-wheel cart used in prehistoric times. The wheel was not initially used to make carts move. Instead, it was used as the potter’s wheel to make clay pots and plates. Researchers came up with this conclusion, thanks to the discovery of the oldest axle in the world which was not used on wheels for carts or some means of transportation but for clay-making.

John Napier was a Scottish mathematician and theological writer who originated this concept as a mathematical device to aid in calculations.

Invented by Brothers Joseph and Etiénne Montgolfier, it was the first form of aerial transportation capable of carrying passengers. The brothers were the sons of a rich paper manufacturer from Annonay, a city in southern France.

Nicolae Paulescu was a Romanian scientist who claimed to have been the first person to discover it. He called it pancreine.

He experimented in making synthetic rubber, leather and artificial silk among many other things.