I can never pick just one thing as my favorite so I'll just go down the century in order of invention:
1902: Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
1902: The birth of the Teddy Bear.
1913: The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy.
1940: Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
1941: Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
1943: Richard James invents the slinky.
1946: The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
1947: Mobile phones first invented. Although cell phones were not sold commercially until 1983, AT&T came up with the idea way back.
1961: Valium invented.
1968: The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
1970: The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.
1973: The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
1974: The post-it note invented by Arthur Fry.
1974: Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invents liposuction.
1983: First Cabbage Patch Kids sold.1943: Richard James invents the slinky.
1946: The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
1947: Mobile phones first invented. Although cell phones were not sold commercially until 1983, AT&T came up with the idea way back.
1961: Valium invented.
1968: The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
1970: The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.
1973: The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
1974: The post-it note invented by Arthur Fry.
1974: Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invents liposuction.
1990: The World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.
1998: Viagra® invented.
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