inventions

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Within the fair’s 200 buildings, they were dazzled by inventions including an enormous Corliss steam engine, the first typing machine featuring a qwerty keyboard and a working model of a steamship.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

“Discoveries and inventions don’t make themselves, Stassun said. “People do those things.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

Among the other inventions ranked, coronary bypass surgery finished in the 26th spot, cotton gin, 30th, dishwasher, 50th, bluejeans, 56th, and Post-it Notes, 60th.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Through the late 1880s and 1890s, Woods remained independent and invented prolifically—nearly 60 inventions in all—but autonomy came at a cost.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Such complex inventions were usually acquired by borrowing, because they spread more rapidly than they could be independently invented locally.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond