Lists and Rankings: The Top 50 Inventions of the Past 50 Years

Included in the rankings:
+ 1955–TV Remote Control
+ 1958–Jet Airliner
+ 1962–Communications Satellite
+ 1971–Waffle Sole Running Shoes
+ 1978–GPS
+ 1984–DNA Fingerprinting
+ 1987–Prozac
+ 2002–IEEE 802.16

++ From a section of Quotes:
1962 Computer Mouse
“I don’t know why we call it a mouse. It started that way, and we never changed it.” –Doug Engelbart, engineer, Stanford Research Institute, 1968

1969 Automated Teller Machine
“On Sept. 2, our bank will open at 9:00 and never close again!” –Long Island branch of Chemical Bank, advertisement from 1969

1973 Cellphone
“Joel, I’m calling you from a real cellular phone.” –Martin Cooper, leader of Motorola’s cellphone team, to Joel Engel, research head of rival AT&T’s Bell Labs, April 3, 1973

Source: Popular Mechanics

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