Many things 

we use today 

were invented 

a long time ago.

Today's cars, trucks, 

motorcycles, trains, ships 

and planes are not much 

different than they were

in the 1960's.

Consider the amazing 

productivity enhancing 

inventions in the past,

many over 100 years ago,

but still in use today:

1821 - Electric Motor (Michael Faraday)

1835 - Revolver (Samuel Colt)

1876 - Telephone (Alexander Graham Bell)

1879 - Incandescent Lamp - (Thomas Edison)

1883 - Alternating Current Motor (Nicola Tesla)

1885 - Motorcycle (Gottlieb Daimler)

1885 - Automobile (Karl Benz)

1893 - Motion Pictures (Thomas Edison)

1895 - Radio (Guglielmo Marconi)

1899 - Tape Recorder (Valdemar Poulsen)

1903 - Airplane (Orville and Wilbur Wright)

1904 - Tractor (Benjamin Holt)

1911 - Air Conditioning (Willis Carrier)

1923 - Frozen Food (Clarence Birdseye)

1926 - Liquid Powered Rockets (Robert Goddard)

1927 - Electronic Television (Philo T. Farnsworth)

1938 - Xerography (Chester Carlson)

1939 - Helicopter (Igor Sikorsky)

1944 - Computer (Howard Aiken)

1947 - Microwave Oven (Percy Spencer)

1955 - Fiber Optics (Narinder Kapany)

1965 - Compact Disc (James Russell)

1973 - Cell Phone (Martin Cooper)

1989 - World Wide Web ( Tim Berners-Lee)

Note: 

The names above are people 

who received patents for the invention,

or are widely credited with introducing

the version of the invention used today.

In many cases, other inventors 

contributed to the invention

by doing experiments,

or making earlier versions.