INVENTIONS THAAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web


Briton Tim Berners-Lee did not invent the Internet itself. When he published his innovations, the network has existed for several decades. What Tim did was to invent the URI, URL, HTTP, HTML protocols. In fact, Internet-based hyperlinks to documents and links between sites - it's all work of Berners-Lee invention. The first introduction was made back in 1989 when was working for the Swiss European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN. And from 1991 to 1993 they were released the first specification URI, HTTP and HTML.

Tim was offered the title of knight in Britain. His WWW discovery is so important for society that we simply could not leave him out of this list.
 

Robert Platt, the inventor of the - Suitcase with wheels


Robert Platt was an ordinary pilot. Everything changed one day when was walking toward the aircraft with a sufficiently heavy luggage. Plat simply picked the luggage up and screwed wheels on the suitcase. His colleagues liked the idea so much, that soon,Robert founded his own company TravelPro, engaged in production of suitcases with wheels.

Perhaps every person who had at least once traveled by plane, failed to appreciate the benefits of such a suitcase, which allows to carry much more luggage with less effort. In 1992 kompani TravelPro was rated Inc 500.
 

Hind Miller and Lisa Lindahl, the inventors of sports bras


In Vermont the the two friends puzzled with one major problem - the lack of sportswear for women. Well of course, not a complete absence, but the apparent scarcity of supply.

Then, sometime in the course of joint work the girls came to the famous all day sports bra. Eventually, this small business Miller and Lindahl was sold to Sara Lee.



Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, the inventors of - intergrated circuits (computer chips)




Kilby and Noyce are the creators of computer chips. For this invention in 1958 (when he worked for the company Texas Instruments as an engineer ) Jack Kilby won the Nobel Prize in 2000. Robert Noyce's history is quite interesting too, because he eventually founded two prominent companies - Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. In essence, the creation of these two men has changed our world by giving mankind an era of personal computers. Without their invention, world would have been a hell of a place.
 

Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin, the inventors of the spreadsheet


Let's put it simply. The brainchild of Frankston can not compete with such today's giants like Microsoft. But, first, their program for quite a long time was the standard in the industry, and made them a hell of a lot of money. And second, it marked the beginning of a whole class of programs that we know today as spreadsheets (eg. Excel)




Melitta Bentz, inventor of the coffee filter


If you're one out of the millions of people out there, who needs a good, warm and flavored cup of coffee every morning you should thank the German housewife Melitta Bentz. She was the lady who invented the coffee filter. Melitta patented her idea back in 1908. Since then, the former housekeeper has become a real entrepreneur, and people around the world were able to calmly drink coffee, enjoying it's taste and not worrying about coffee grains.

Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes, inventors of the air bubble film


We all love air-bubble films (still call it an air film, bubble film). It was invented back in 1957 by Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes. They were also working on the mechanism for the painless removal of wallpaper, and eventually got a great package for storage of fragile products. A few years after the discovery, partners founded the company Sealed Air Corporation in New Jersey. Today, annual revenues excess 5 billion $.