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Since the very beginning, humans have tried to make sense out of chaos...
... to learn more about the world around us...
...and create things that help us interact with, and control, that world.
But the road hasn't always been easy.
Some inventors tried and failed, and tried and failed again...
... Some people even sacrificed their lives along the way.
Like Marie Curie, whose pioneering work with radioactivity (even carrying tubes of radium around in her pockets) eventually led to her early demise.
Her notebooks are kept in lead-lined boxes today as they still emit dangerous levels of radioactivity...
Unlikely figures often changed our world.
Take Bertha Benz. She was the wife of automobile inventor Karl Benz.
Her more famous husband was a terrible businessman, and Berta was the brains - and bank - of the situation.
Although Bertha financed the development process, and would hold patent rights under modern law, as a married woman she was not allowed to apply for the patent in her day...
Sometimes people can surprise you.
Some inventions are disputed.
Four different countries lay claim to the invention of the radio...
...while others are misunderstood.
Did you know Joseph Swann invented the lightbulb before Thomas Edison?
You might not even realize that some things were invented at all.
Take the number '0'.
The concept of zero first appeared in India around 458 CE, called śūnya in Sanskrit, which meant "void" or "empty".
For millenia, humans have looked up and pondered the big questions...
...looked inside and examined the tiny building blocks of, well, everything...
...and looked around at each other, defining how we can make our world a better place.
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What's next?
Tiny discoveries can have a big impact.
Who knows - what you try today might shape the future for all of us.
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