What are the Major Inventions of All Time?

Name: The cold turkey sandwich

Date: 11/25/2011

Inventor: etc etc

wheel about 3500 BC proto-Aryan people or Sumerians Russia/Kazakhstan or Mesopotamia

ink c. 2500 BC — Egypt, China

paper late 900s — China

printing press, 1450, Johannes Gutenberg

The Telescope , 1609, (refinement), Galileo Galilei

The steam engine, 1775 (refinement), James Watt (kick started the Industrial Revolution)

vaccination, 1796, Edward Jenner

canned food, 1809, Nicolas Appert

bicycle , 1818, Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun (may be :1865 Pierre and Ernest Michaux)

internal-combustion engine, 1859. Étienne Lenoir

pasteurization ,1864, Louis Pasteur

light bulb, 1879, Thomas Alva Edison

radio , 1896 , Guglielmo Marconi (maybe getting too much credit)

assembly line ,1913, Henry Ford (maybe more accurately : William "Pa" Klann)

electron microscope, 1933, Ernst Ruska

GM/GE Crops, 1963-1970- & onwards, Norman Ernest Borlaug

The microprocessor (Intel 4004) , 1971, Ted Hoff, Frederico Faggin

The internet ,1969, DARPA (US defense research)

We can't forget the Arabic numerals (originating from India) and other mathematical, philosophical , and medical concepts & ideas which could loosely be call inventions. Like Newton's calculus.