my name's Danny Burke and my brain is buzzing for this video we've got a very brainy video for you guys today this is most amazing top ten and today we're gonna be talking about the top ten most important discoveries ever that's right folks some of you guys might think the discovering this YouTube channel was the greatest discovery in human history apparently not apparently we'd be talking about some of the greatest discoveries that humans have ever made and we're gonna jump right into this like we always do that number 10 we're gonna be talking about anesthesia without anesthesia to stop the pain of surgery or put patients to sleep altogether every minor operation we take for granted today will be one of the most painful things imaginable it was discovered in 1801 by English scientist Humphrey Davy who was experimenting with different mixes of gases when he combined nitrogen and oxygen to make nitrous oxide when he inhaled this he experienced euphoria started laughing then crying and then passed out it sounds like an average Friday night for me when he kept experimenting with it he also found that it made him completely numb to pain so he recommended this for dentists and doctors and the rest of world was like this is great we like this good stuff and number nine we've got electricity now this one revolutionized the world and brought you many of the home comforts that you guys take for granted it almost literally brought us from the dark into the light now electricity has obviously existed as a fundamental property of the universe since the dawn of time but it's hard to say when humans discovered it because there's a lot of examples of them knowing what it was throughout history but it's fair to say we really started to understand in the way we do today sometime in a 17th century it was then that scientists invented an early electrostatic generator knew the difference between positive and negative currents and the properties of electrical conductors and insulators and then came Benjamin Franklin with his kite and lightning and then came the light bulb and then the rest is history it changed the world and it charges my phone that's why it's on our list now number eight we've got germ theory before the theory of germs was proposed nobody seemed to have a clear understanding of how diseases were spread or food became spoiled and rotten then in 1856 Louis Pasteur came along and said that microscopic organisms that we now call germs are floating everywhere around us in the air undetectable to the human eye he proved the bacteria didn't just spawn randomly and instead existed all around us waiting to multiply and feed on decaying matter Louis Pasteur also showed that sterilizing objects could stop bacteria from growing on them which is a good thing for stopping disease he also invented a technique for removing bacteria from liquid foods such as milk so next time you have pasteurized milk it's named after him come here number seven we got the rosetta stone now the ability to read and write ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics have been lost some 1500 years ago historians had to largely get a what hieroglyphics meant until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 by French soldiers in Egypt made of black granite was as a stone contained a decree on behalf of the Egyptian King Ptolemy v over 2,000 years ago the top was the confusing hieroglyphics where the bottom was an almost identical tax written in Greek and guess what people did know how to read Greek so they were able to translate every single last piece of ancient Egyptian writing just because of one stone free cool stuff as I'm a sixth now we've got fingerprints now humans have known that their fingerprints were different from one another for hundreds of years but it wasn't until William Herschel a British administrator in India started using them alongside signatures in contracts that people began to implement fingerprinting as a form of ID then an Argentine police official called Juan Vucetich started using them to identify criminals and this discovery revolutionized the justice system within a few years people weren't just identifying criminals by bay descriptions of their faces fingerprinting meant it was a lot lot easier to tie a criminal to a crime good stuff at number five we're gonna be talking about the discovery that the earth goes round the Sun otherwise known as the heliocentric theory for thousands of years people thought that the earth was the center of the solar system until this guy capper came along in the first half of the 16th century and proved through a meticulous scientific method that the observation of the planets movements only made sense if the Sun was the center of the solar system and not the earth nowadays we take you for granted that the earth isn't the center of the solar system the Batman people didn't really like it especially the Catholic Church it went against pretty much everything that people thought at the time so it was a very big discovery coming into the fore now we've got evolution or more specifically the discovery of the to hang child this was a nickname given to the remains of a fossilized primate found in 1924 it was discovered at a quarry site in South Africa and was eventually identified as belonging to a member of a species that was in a transition state between ancient Apes and modern day humans it was dated at being an amazing 2.8 million years old and was a key piece of evidence improving Darwin right in his theory that humans originated from Africa and now in number three we've got vaccination vaccination saving lives is a well-known fact these days for example the measles vaccination is estimated to have saved 17 point 1 million lives since the year 2000 it cannot be understated how many diseases vaccinations have to help prevent Edward Jenner was an English surgeon who in 1874 noticed that milkmaids often got the mild disease cow pox but never the deadly disease of smallpox he figured this means that they were in the same family of diseases and catching cow plops made you resistant to smallpox he injected kids with a form of cow pox and then injected them with a form of smallpox afterwards and amazingly for the first time in history none of them died this paved the way for modern day backs and nations and it proved his theory correct but it was a pretty crazy way of doing it at number 2 we got DNA in 1953 biochemist Francis Crick and James Watson were the people who created the first accurate model of the molecular structure deoxyribonucleic acid otherwise known as DNA this was a huge breakthrough in science as DNA is the master code to how living organisms are built operate and reproduce discovering the properties and shape of our own DNA on the molecular level allowed scientists to develop cures for many dead diseases eventually this allowed scientists to map out the entire human genome which is basically the instruction guide on how to build me or you or literally any other human very cool stuff and finally at number one we have got penicillin now this one has saved an immeasurable amount of life since it was first discovered in 1928 by 47 year-old Alexander Fleming he grew bacteria in small glass plates to study deadly diseases butts rule to stop mold from getting in there and contaminating it when you return to his lab one day from a trip he found that one of his dishes of bacteria had failed to grow a type of mold called penicillium notatum had found its way into the dish and it stopped the growth of bacteria there this might have been the most important mold ever found because it was eventually developed into the drugs penicillin which has saved millions and millions of lives and is the thing that any doctor will give you if you get a nasty infection well guys there you have it there was some of the most important discoveries ever made which one of you guys think was the most important and do you know any other important 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