Some were invented in the middle ages. These include tennis, board games, and others so without the invention of some of the sports we may not have them today. Our major sports like football and...
Yes. While most are no longer directly used (Franklin stove) or have been improved upon (odometer), their science has been adapted and improved upon to give us our modern technology. People still...
Marie curie is not considered an inventor. She discovered radioactivity, which she did not invent, but was the first to describe. Radioactivity is a property of matter that is used today in medicine,...
Edison's inventions, perhaps most notably the electric lamp and the phonograph, gave us (among many other things!) artificial light and recorded music.