From the Liberty Bodice to the contraceptive pill...
TV presenter and science whizz Johnny Ball told me the transistor was the greatest invention, or perhaps Dalton's Atomic theory, which revolutionised Everything Else!
My Mum reckons its antibiotics - and plenty of listeners this morning agreed that penicillin had to be the biggest influence on our lives nowadays.
But what about anaesthetics? Or television, and the world wide web? The telephone, maybe, the MRI scanner, DNA profiling, or the world's first heart transplant?
Congratulations to the Royal Society and Happy Birthday.
Hi! I’m Anne Diamond and on weekday mornings you can find me on BBC Radio Berkshire (10 - 1). Even if you don’t live in and around Berkshire, and you know me from my TV and writing, you can always read what I’m doing here or listen online. Welcome! 
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