Top 50 Inventions in History - Statistics

General Stats

Answer Stats

#	Invention	Year	% Correct
18	The Automobile	Late 19th Century	79%
16	The Personal Computer	1970s	76%
1	The Printing Press	1430s	72%
24	The Telephone	1876	71%
2	Electricity	Late 19th Century	69%
45	Television	Early 19th Century	67%
15	The Airplane	1903	65%
6	Paper	2nd Century	63%
14	Gunpowder	10th Century	57%
28	Radio	1906	56%
9	The Internet	1960s	48%
5	Optical Lenses	13th Century	45%
10	The Steam Engine	1712	43%
8	Vaccination	1796	39%
17	The Compass	12th Century	35%
21	Nuclear Fission	1939	34%
3	Penicillin	1928	34%
13	Refrigeration	1850s	30%
26	The Telegraph	1837	30%
40	The Sailboat	4th Millenium B.C.	28%
41	Rocketry	1926	27%
27	The Mechanized Clock	15th Century	27%
19	Industrial Steelmaking	1850s	23%
29	Photography	Early 19th Century	22%
32	The Cotton Gin	1793	22%
44	Air-Conditioning	1902	17%
42	Paper Money	11th Century	14%
25	Alphabetization	First Millenium B.C.	13%
30	The Moldboard Plow	18th Century	12%
37	Cement	First Millenium B.C.	11%
7	The Internal Combustion Engine	Late 19th Century	11%
20	The Pill	1960	11%
33	Pasteurization	1863	10%
49	The Assembly Line	1913	9%
34	The Gregorian Calendar	1582	8%
47	The Nail	2nd Millenium B.C.	8%
43	The Abacus	3rd Millenium B.C.	7%
46	Anesthesia	1846	6%
50	The Combine Harvester	1930s	6%
12	Sanitation Systems	Mid-19th Century	3%
23	The Sextant	1757	3%
31	Archimedes' Screw	3rd Century B.C.	2%
48	The Lever	3rd Millenium B.C.	2%
4	Semiconductor Electronics	Mid-20th Century	1%
36	The Steam Turbine	1884	1%
11	Nitrogen Fixation	1918	0%
39	Oil Drilling	1859	0%
35	Oil Refining	Mid-19th Century	0%
38	Scientific Plant Breeding	1920s	0%
22	The Green Revolution	Mid-20th Century	0%

Score Distribution

Percent of People with Each Score

Percentile by Number Answered

Your Score History

You have not taken this quiz