I ranked the steam engine as one of the half dozen mostimportant inventions in history – explaining how, even if obsoletenowadays, it was the first engine able to generate power,a technology that revolutionized our ability to do something wecould never do before. Choose five other inventions you think wouldsimilarly round out the top half dozen, and make a good case as tohow each merits the important position you gave it in the progressof science, technology, or society. Think historically andcomprehensively.
inventions( Printing press, light bulb, telegraph, the wheel,microscope)
