Switzerland of Inventions
With an excellent education system and a highly competitive research and development sector, this central European country has institutionalized a long tradition of excellence.
Switzerland has been a hatchery of ideas for hundreds of years. A plethora of scientists and entrepreneurs have testified to Switzerland’s extraordinary innovation and changed the world by putting their inventive minds to work. Switzerland’s capacity to innovate relies on this pedigree.
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Cellophane
© Aamous8817, Wikimedia Commons, GNU
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Clean Space One
© EPFL
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Computer Mouse
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Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure (1916)
© Frank-Hneri Jullien, Wikimedia Commons, GNU
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Helvetica Font, Max Miedinger, Eduard Hoffmann (1957)
© GearedBull, Wikimedia Commons, GNU
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Enquiries into the Course of Nature in the development of the Human Race – Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1797)
© ETH Zürich Library
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Fondue
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KABA Key
© Cavernia, Wikimedia Commons, GNU
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LSD
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Milk Chocolate
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Muesli
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Nespresso & Nescafé
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PASCAL progamming language by Niklaus Wirth
© me, Wikimedia Commons, GNU
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ProVelcro® – Georges de Mestral (1941)
© me, Wikimedia Commons, GNU
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Rex vegetable peeler – Alfred Neweczerzal (1947)
© Fred Klein, Wikimedia Commons, GNU
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Solar powered planes: Solar Impulse
© Ed Mullin, Wikimedia Commons, GNU
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Spirit: Absinthe
© Eric Litton, Wikimedia Commons, GNU
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Stewi
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The Immersion Blender
© Robbin1111, Wikimedia Commons, GNU
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The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)
© Ambre Troizat, Wikimedia Commons, GNU
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World Wide Web – Tim Berners-Lee at CERN (1989)
© Robert Scoble, Wikimedia Commons, GNU
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Zip-fastener – Martin Winterhalter (1925)
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