the world would look pretty different
without the breakthroughs of these great
innovators welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 innovators who change the
world before we begin we publish new
videos every day so be sure to subscribe
for more great content for this list
we’re looking at inventors entrepreneurs
and visionaries whose groundbreaking
ideas altered the course of history
ranked according to creativity ingenuity
and influence number 10 Sir Tim
berners-lee without him you wouldn’t be
surfing the internet Tim berners-lee is
the English computer scientist who in
1989 invented the world wide web the
system of interlinked hypertext
documents that allows us to browse the
Internet at the time berners-lee worked
for CERN and wanted a way for scientists
to keep track of and share research
information but the world wide web soon
became one of the most important
communications mediums of all time
connecting people all over the world
since then berners-lee hasn’t rested on
his laurels he holds positions at MIT
and Oxford is director of the world wide
web consortium and is a leading advocate
of net neutrality number 9 galileo
galilei disgraced in his time but
celebrated today italian polymath an
intellectual rebel galileo galilei is
sometimes called the father of the
scientific method he’s best known for
arguing that the Earth orbits the Sun a
proposal that aroused fierce scientific
and religious opposition Nicholas
Copernicus had proposed a heliocentric
model in the 16th century but Galileo
had hard evidence having made his own
telescope and observed moons orbiting
Jupiter rather than earth the Roman
Inquisition found his theory foolish
absurd and heretical and condemned
Galileo to house arrest for the rest of
his life but his ideas lived on and we
now know he was right all along number 8
the Wright brothers
man has dreamed of flying for millennia
but it was American brothers Orville and
Wilbur Wright who made it possible for
us to soar like the birds until the
Wrights built and flew the world’s first
successful airplane in 1903 human flight
was restricted to kites gliders hot-air
balloons and hydrogen dirigible x’ air
designs revolutionized aviation in
particular their invention of three axis
control giving pilots direct control
over the pitch yaw and roll of the plane
through dogged persistence they achieved
the world’s first powered flights making
modern aviation possible not bad for men
who built and tested their ideas in a
bicycle shop number seven Marie Curie
Marie Curie was not only the first woman
to receive a Nobel Prize she was also
the first person to receive it twice in
both physics and chemistry born in
Poland Curie studied and worked in Paris
where she pioneered research into
radioactivity and with her husband
Pierre discovered the elements polonium
and radium at a time when the odds were
stacked against female scientists Curie
blazed new trails
although radiation probably caused her
early death at 66 her researched paved
the way for radiation therapy and atomic
energy earning her the moniker the
mother of modern physics
number six Steve Jobs for some Apple has
become something of a religion but
whether you are an acolyte or an Android
user it’s difficult to deny the impact
Apple’s founder Steve Jobs has had on
the modern world a central figure in the
home computer revolution Jobs was pushed
out of Apple in 1985 but returned in
triumphant fashion a little over a
decade later to oversee the rollout of
the iMac iPod iPhone and iPad as a
person Jobs has often been described in
less than flattering terms but without
doubt his uncompromising vision and
flair for design have radically changed
the way we use technology number 5 Henry
Ford the first automobiles remained the
extravagant playthings of the upper
class until American industrialist Henry
Ford revolutionized production in 1903
at
age 39 Ford founded the Ford Motor
Company and in 1908 introduced the
iconic Model T priced at just eight
hundred and twenty-five dollars by
creating the world’s first moving
assembly lines Ford was able to minimize
costs maximize production and at the
same time pay his workers decent wages
within a few years the price of the
Model T dropped to 360 dollars and for
better or worse automobiles took over
the roads Ford’s anti-semitism would
leave a permanent stain on its
reputation but his method of mass
production formed one of the
cornerstones of modern economic systems
number four Charles Babbage Charles
Babbage was an English polymath with
fingers and pretty much every
intellectual pie imaginable a professor
who preferred learning over lecturing he
busied himself with breakthroughs in
mathematics astronomy and cryptography
but it was his design in 1837 of the
first general-purpose mechanical
computer that earned him lasting fame
although it relied on gears and punch
cards Babbage’s analytical engine had
the same logical structure as a modern
digital computer and he’s remembered
today as a prophetic visionary ahead of
his time inventing the computer almost
100 years before Alan Turing conceived
of the Turing machine number 3 Thomas
Edison what do the light bulb
the motion picture camera and the
phonograph have in common we owe modern
designs to American inventor and
entrepreneur Thomas Edison whose
innovations were so miraculous he was
dubbed The Wizard of Menlo Park an
astute businessman as well as a hands-on
tinkerer
he held a staggering 1093 patents and
had a special talent for marketing his
contraptions and developing existing
ideas into practical realities while his
vicious feud with rival Nikola Tesla
isn’t winning him many fans these days
Edison’s combination of ingenuity and
business acumen fundamentally shaped the
modern world number 2 Nikola Tesla
brilliant eccentric and prolific
serbian-american inventor Nikola Tesla’s
technologies power our homes
and contributed to wireless
communication born in the Austrian
Empire Tesla arrived in the US with
little to his name but soon quit a
position at Thomas Edison’s machine
works to strike out on his own
his alternating current induction motor
emerged the eventual victor in the war
of the currents between himself and
Edison Tesla dreamed big
but sometimes struggled to finance his
schemes a fact embodied in his most
ambitious experiment
Wardenclyffe tower meant to transmit
power around the world but demolished
for scrap when funding collapsed still
it’s thanks to Tesla that we can safely
transmit electricity over long distances
today before we reveal the identity of
our top pick here are some honorable
mentions
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number one Leonardo da Vinci a painter
sculptor architect engineer and inventor
Italian artist and scientist Leonardo da
Vinci mastered more skills in his
lifetime than many of us put together in
art his attention to tone gradation
experiments with light and shade and
innovations in perspective and
Composition changed painting forever
he used meticulous anatomical studies to
capture gestures and emotional
expressions in rich lifelike detail in
his spare time he sketched inventions
both practical and impossible ranging
from a parachute tank and helicopter to
a bat like flying machine and shoes for
walking on water today his iconic Mona
Lisa attracts millions of visitors a
year and he remains an enduring symbol
of universal genius and the Renaissance
[Music]
you
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without the breakthroughs of these great
innovators welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 innovators who change the
world before we begin we publish new
videos every day so be sure to subscribe
for more great content for this list
we’re looking at inventors entrepreneurs
and visionaries whose groundbreaking
ideas altered the course of history
ranked according to creativity ingenuity
and influence number 10 Sir Tim
berners-lee without him you wouldn’t be
surfing the internet Tim berners-lee is
the English computer scientist who in
1989 invented the world wide web the
system of interlinked hypertext
documents that allows us to browse the
Internet at the time berners-lee worked
for CERN and wanted a way for scientists
to keep track of and share research
information but the world wide web soon
became one of the most important
communications mediums of all time
connecting people all over the world
since then berners-lee hasn’t rested on
his laurels he holds positions at MIT
and Oxford is director of the world wide
web consortium and is a leading advocate
of net neutrality number 9 galileo
galilei disgraced in his time but
celebrated today italian polymath an
intellectual rebel galileo galilei is
sometimes called the father of the
scientific method he’s best known for
arguing that the Earth orbits the Sun a
proposal that aroused fierce scientific
and religious opposition Nicholas
Copernicus had proposed a heliocentric
model in the 16th century but Galileo
had hard evidence having made his own
telescope and observed moons orbiting
Jupiter rather than earth the Roman
Inquisition found his theory foolish
absurd and heretical and condemned
Galileo to house arrest for the rest of
his life but his ideas lived on and we
now know he was right all along number 8
the Wright brothers
man has dreamed of flying for millennia
but it was American brothers Orville and
Wilbur Wright who made it possible for
us to soar like the birds until the
Wrights built and flew the world’s first
successful airplane in 1903 human flight
was restricted to kites gliders hot-air
balloons and hydrogen dirigible x’ air
designs revolutionized aviation in
particular their invention of three axis
control giving pilots direct control
over the pitch yaw and roll of the plane
through dogged persistence they achieved
the world’s first powered flights making
modern aviation possible not bad for men
who built and tested their ideas in a
bicycle shop number seven Marie Curie
Marie Curie was not only the first woman
to receive a Nobel Prize she was also
the first person to receive it twice in
both physics and chemistry born in
Poland Curie studied and worked in Paris
where she pioneered research into
radioactivity and with her husband
Pierre discovered the elements polonium
and radium at a time when the odds were
stacked against female scientists Curie
blazed new trails
although radiation probably caused her
early death at 66 her researched paved
the way for radiation therapy and atomic
energy earning her the moniker the
mother of modern physics
number six Steve Jobs for some Apple has
become something of a religion but
whether you are an acolyte or an Android
user it’s difficult to deny the impact
Apple’s founder Steve Jobs has had on
the modern world a central figure in the
home computer revolution Jobs was pushed
out of Apple in 1985 but returned in
triumphant fashion a little over a
decade later to oversee the rollout of
the iMac iPod iPhone and iPad as a
person Jobs has often been described in
less than flattering terms but without
doubt his uncompromising vision and
flair for design have radically changed
the way we use technology number 5 Henry
Ford the first automobiles remained the
extravagant playthings of the upper
class until American industrialist Henry
Ford revolutionized production in 1903
at
age 39 Ford founded the Ford Motor
Company and in 1908 introduced the
iconic Model T priced at just eight
hundred and twenty-five dollars by
creating the world’s first moving
assembly lines Ford was able to minimize
costs maximize production and at the
same time pay his workers decent wages
within a few years the price of the
Model T dropped to 360 dollars and for
better or worse automobiles took over
the roads Ford’s anti-semitism would
leave a permanent stain on its
reputation but his method of mass
production formed one of the
cornerstones of modern economic systems
number four Charles Babbage Charles
Babbage was an English polymath with
fingers and pretty much every
intellectual pie imaginable a professor
who preferred learning over lecturing he
busied himself with breakthroughs in
mathematics astronomy and cryptography
but it was his design in 1837 of the
first general-purpose mechanical
computer that earned him lasting fame
although it relied on gears and punch
cards Babbage’s analytical engine had
the same logical structure as a modern
digital computer and he’s remembered
today as a prophetic visionary ahead of
his time inventing the computer almost
100 years before Alan Turing conceived
of the Turing machine number 3 Thomas
Edison what do the light bulb
the motion picture camera and the
phonograph have in common we owe modern
designs to American inventor and
entrepreneur Thomas Edison whose
innovations were so miraculous he was
dubbed The Wizard of Menlo Park an
astute businessman as well as a hands-on
tinkerer
he held a staggering 1093 patents and
had a special talent for marketing his
contraptions and developing existing
ideas into practical realities while his
vicious feud with rival Nikola Tesla
isn’t winning him many fans these days
Edison’s combination of ingenuity and
business acumen fundamentally shaped the
modern world number 2 Nikola Tesla
brilliant eccentric and prolific
serbian-american inventor Nikola Tesla’s
technologies power our homes
and contributed to wireless
communication born in the Austrian
Empire Tesla arrived in the US with
little to his name but soon quit a
position at Thomas Edison’s machine
works to strike out on his own
his alternating current induction motor
emerged the eventual victor in the war
of the currents between himself and
Edison Tesla dreamed big
but sometimes struggled to finance his
schemes a fact embodied in his most
ambitious experiment
Wardenclyffe tower meant to transmit
power around the world but demolished
for scrap when funding collapsed still
it’s thanks to Tesla that we can safely
transmit electricity over long distances
today before we reveal the identity of
our top pick here are some honorable
mentions
[Music]
[Music]
number one Leonardo da Vinci a painter
sculptor architect engineer and inventor
Italian artist and scientist Leonardo da
Vinci mastered more skills in his
lifetime than many of us put together in
art his attention to tone gradation
experiments with light and shade and
innovations in perspective and
Composition changed painting forever
he used meticulous anatomical studies to
capture gestures and emotional
expressions in rich lifelike detail in
his spare time he sketched inventions
both practical and impossible ranging
from a parachute tank and helicopter to
a bat like flying machine and shoes for
walking on water today his iconic Mona
Lisa attracts millions of visitors a
year and he remains an enduring symbol
of universal genius and the Renaissance
[Music]
you
[Music]
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