Like WHAT 
Well lets start with :
adhesive postage stamps, anaesthetics, antisepsis, reaping machine, Bank of England, chemical bonds , penicillin, the decimal point, Encyclopedia Britannica, engineering sciences, fax machines, first cloned mammal, flailing machines, geosciences, golf, hypodermic syringes, Kelvin scale, percussion powder, logarithms, Maxwell's equations, marmalade, mackintosh raincoats, macadamized roads, microwave ovens , colloid chemistry, breech-loading rifle ,tubular steel, quinine, Sociology, pneumatic tyres, hollow pipe, drainage Peter Pan, radar, paleobiology, polarization, cure for scurvy, refrigerators, bakelite, iron bridges, the steam engine, telephones, thermos flasks, the telegraph, television, the steam-hammer, ,paraffin, Sherlock Holmes, Whisky, US Navy, Economics, Cloud Chamber
And in more recent times, Grand Theft Auto.
