From the July 10, 2012, Listverse.
10. USA
9. Nearly every modern sport
8. Newton's Laws
7. Programmable computer-- First one by Charles Babbage in the 1820s, the Difference Engine in 1822.
6. World Wide Web-- not to be confused with the Internet
5. Television-- First publicly demonstrated TV by John Logic Baird on Jan. 26, 1926. The first color one was in 1928.
4. Steam locomotive-- Richard Trevitchick in 1804
3. Theory of Evolution-- Charles Darwin
2. Telephone-- by Alexander graham Bell patented in 1876.
1. English language, second most spoken after Mandarin.
Bloody Well English. --Cooter
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