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Friday, May 22, 2026

Best Ideas (One per Year, 1900–2026)

1900 Planck's Quantum Hypothesis, 1901 Special Relativity, 1902 Blood Types, 1903 Powered Flight, 1904 Vacuum Tube, 1905 Photoelectric Effect, 1906 Genetics Rediscovery, 1907 Bakelite Plastic, 1908 Assembly Line, 1909 Haber-Bosch Process, 1910 Russell's Paradox, 1911 Atomic Nucleus, 1912 Continental Drift, 1913 Bohr Model, 1914 General Relativity, 1915 Noether's Theorem, 1916 Insulin, 1917 Quantum Mechanics Foundations, 1918 Influenza Pandemic Model, 1919 Eclipse Confirmation of Relativity, 1920 Isotopes, 1921 Penicillin, 1922 Insulin Therapy, 1923 Compton Effect, 1924 Wave-Particle Duality, 1925 Matrix Mechanics, 1926 Uncertainty Principle, 1927 Big Bang Theory, 1928 Electron Diffraction, 1929 Great Depression Economics, 1930 Pluto Discovery, 1931 Gödel Incompleteness, 1932 Neutron, 1933 Polyethylene, 1934 Nuclear Fission, 1935 Radar, 1936 Turing Machine, 1937 Nylon, 1938 Nuclear Chain Reaction, 1939 DDT, 1940 Manhattan Project, 1941 Jet Engine, 1942 First Nuclear Reactor, 1943 ENIAC Computer, 1944 DNA as Genetic Material, 1945 Atomic Bomb, 1946 ENIAC Public Demo, 1947 Transistor, 1948 Information Theory, 1949 Cybernetics, 1950 Turing Test, 1951 UNIVAC Computer, 1952 Double Helix DNA, 1953 DNA Structure, 1954 Oral Contraceptive, 1955 Polio Vaccine, 1956 Dartmouth AI Conference, 1957 Sputnik, 1958 Integrated Circuit, 1959 Laser, 1960 Moore's Law, 1961 Human Spaceflight, 1962 Silent Spring, 1963 Quarks, 1964 Bell's Theorem, 1965 ARPANET Concept, 1966 Lunar Orbiter, 1967 Heart Transplant, 1968 Internet Precursor, 1969 Moon Landing, 1970 Recombinant DNA, 1971 Microprocessor, 1972 Email, 1973 Mobile Phone, 1974 Personal Computer, 1975 Altair 8800, 1976 Apple I, 1977 Voyager Probes, 1978 In Vitro Fertilization, 1979 Compact Disc, 1980 HIV Identification, 1981 IBM PC, 1982 TCP/IP, 1983 Internet Protocol, 1984 Macintosh, 1985 Windows, 1986 Chernobyl Lesson, 1987 WWW Proposal, 1988 Hubble Telescope Launch, 1989 Berlin Wall Fall, 1990 Human Genome Project Start, 1991 World Wide Web Public, 1992 GPS Civilian Access, 1993 Mosaic Browser, 1994 Amazon Founding, 1995 eBay, 1996 Dolly the Sheep, 1997 Deep Blue Chess, 1998 Google Search, 1999 Wi-Fi Standard, 2000 Human Genome Draft, 2001 Wikipedia, 2002 iPod, 2003 Human Genome Complete, 2004 Facebook, 2005 YouTube, 2006 CRISPR Discovery, 2007 iPhone, 2008 Bitcoin, 2009 Deep Learning Revival, 2010 iPad, 2011 Arab Spring, 2012 Higgs Boson, 2013 CRISPR-Cas9, 2014 AlphaGo, 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, 2016 Gravitational Waves, 2017 Transformer Architecture, 2018 GDPR Privacy, 2019 mRNA Vaccines, 2020 COVID mRNA Deployment, 2021 Metaverse Concept, 2022 ChatGPT Launch, 2023 Generative AI Boom, 2024 AlphaFold3, 2025 Quantum Supremacy Milestones, 2026 Socioplastics.