Three centuries of technological innovation: Opportunity is the mother of invention.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 2026 · PMC13321222 · PMID 42335224

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To this aim, we searched the print and online literature for inventions from 1690–1990 that reporters, historians, and technologists considered to be highly significant innovations in seven categories of technology—agriculture, armaments, information and communication, household, industry, medical, and transportation.

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