"The greatest scientists are artists as
well," as Albert Einstein said. We do not
realize that the scientists are individuals with ‘Creative Minds’ creating
newer and newer inventions for human comfort and improving standard of living.
If we look through the creative scientists
through the past almost 700 years we will actually find many great inventions which
made history and these inventions were
made by scientists with creative minds.
Scientists ‘discover’ scientific facts and then
use these facts to create new inventions. From earliest tools of the cavemen to
the modern digital advances, human inventions and technologies have fashioned
civilizations and transformed life on the Earth.
Using the prime criteria 'improving the standard of living', the following inventions can be
considered as top 10 inventions:
Invention
|
Year
|
Inventor
|
Notes
|
|
1
|
Printing Press
|
1450
|
Johannes Gutenberg
|
allowed literacy to greatly expand
|
2
|
Electric Light
|
1879
|
Thomas Edison
|
powered countless social changes
|
3
|
Automobile
|
1885
|
Karl Benz
|
increased personal mobility and freedom
|
4
|
Telephone
|
1876
|
Alexander Graham Bell
|
spread communication across wide areas
|
5
|
Radio and Television
|
1895 & 1926
|
Guglielmo Marconi & John Baird
|
made the world smaller
|
6
|
Vaccination
|
1796
|
Edward Jenner
|
protected people from disease
|
7
|
Computer
|
1939
|
John Atanasoff, et al.
|
transformed business world; predecessor to the Internet
|
8
|
Airplane
|
1903
|
Orville and Wilbur Wright
|
allowed people and products to quickly move
|
9
|
Gas powered tractor
|
1892
|
John Froelich
|
started agricultural mechanization
|
10
|
Anesthesia
|
1844
|
Horace Wells
|
provided a great leap forward for medicine
|
Creativity and intelligence are closely linked
concepts, so much so that the existence of one is the measure of the other. Through
intelligent creativity our scientists of the past and present have made
breakthrough inventions which has transformed the lives of the ‘Homo Sapiens’.
"Over the course of the last decade,
however, we seem to have reached a general agreement that creativity involves
the production of novel, useful products" (Mumford, 2003, p. 110). In
Robert Sternberg's words, creativity is the production of "something
original and worthwhile".
Our society needs more and more creative
scientists for continued innovation. We rely heavily on scientific creativity,
whether we realize it or not and take that for granted. Hence, the need of the hour is to induct our
next generation to a ‘cult of creative thinking’ and pave the path for the
same.
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