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The human existence has been defined by key discoveries, innovations and advancements across every generation.

From the discovery of the wheel by the Sumerians, to the Agrarian Revolution, and the 17th Century industrial revolution that gave us the engines, the early 20th Century innovations of the electric bulb and radio, discovery of penicillin in the late 20th and present 21st Century advent of the computers, internet and the smartphones.

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