Poll Results: Inventions

Katie Jagel
Health & science
February 21, 2014, 4:11 PM GMT+0

These are the topline results of a YouGov/Economist survey of 1000 US adults interviewed February 15-17, 2014 on inventions. The results show that Electricity has remained the greatest invention, while weapons are the worst. The margin of error is 4.2%.

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