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2200 BCE
Soap
Ebers Papyrus 2200 B.C To smell good -
1600 BCE
Shoes
Jan Matzeliger 1600-1200 bc Can walk without hurting your feet -
500 BCE
Medicine
Hippocratic Corpus group Ancient Greece Help people heal/get better -
100 BCE
Paper
Cai Lun 100 b.c. Something to write on -
1290
Glasses
Giordano da Pisa 1290 To see better. -
1564
Pencil
Conrad Gessner 1564 To write -
Clock
Christiaan Huygens 1656 Tell time -
Ball
Charles goodyear 1855 To play/have fun -
Type writer
Christopher Latham Sholes 1868 To type on paper. -
Lightbulb
Thomas Edison 1879 Illuminate rooms. -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell 1876 Talk to people from distance -
Zipper
Whitcomb L. Judson 1893 To hold usually 2 pieces of clothing together -
Tape
Richard Drew 1925 Hold things together/up -
Computer
Charles Babbage 1943 Access Electronic papers etc. -
Internet
Robert E. Kahn 1983 Connect with people across the world