The Best Inventions Of 2007

From the phone that has changed phones forever, to futuristic cars, to a building made of water, to a remote-controlled dragonfly — a dazzling display of ingenuity

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Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913-1988)

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Louise Brown became the first human conceived by in vitro fertilization, Steptoe's technique for uniting an egg and a sperm in a petri dish and implanting them in the mother's womb.

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