Electricity, the telephone and vaccinations have been voted the best inventions ever - but most Brits cannot name the people who created the life-changing concepts.
The lightbulb, the internet and television are also considered to be among the best discoveries, with computers, cars, anaesthesia and planes completing the top 10.
But the study of 2,000 adults found that despite considering these to be among the greatest creations on earth, one in five didn't realise Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb.
And more than half (52 per cent) incorrectly thought Henry Ford conceived the idea of a motor car. A fifth were also unaware the Wright brothers were the creators of the first successful plane, while one in six couldn't name Alexander Graham
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