1 - Electric lightbulbs (archaeologists excavated in the course of the 20th century a few antiquated lightbulbs at King Djoser step pyramid at Saqqarah, Egypt, as well as amid 4,500 years old Sumerian ziggurats) ;
2 - Candles (earliest accounts of candle making are attributed to the ancient Egyptians since as far as 3,000 BCE) ;
3 - Permanent housing (earliest sedentary cultures emerged and prospered in few key-regions of the African continent since as far as around 20,000 BCE) ;
4 - The Internet (developped by Nigerian American savant polymath Dr. Phillip Emegwali in the 1980s) ;
5 - Honey (ancient Egyptians brought the older Ethiopic tradition of apiculture across the ancient world) ;
6 - Fire (the mastery of fire has certainly started somewhere) ;
7 - Oven (used by Upper Paleolithic hunting gathering groups across the Old World since as far as 30,000 BCE. Oldest uses of oven found in Paleolithic Central Europe, amid sites from the Mesolithic cultures of the Indus Valley then in latter pre-dynastic Egypt) ;
8 - Mobile phones (earlier attempts at the wake of 20th century by both Serbian savant Nikola Tesla and a white American merchant in 1908, but its modern form has been developped for the U.S. military around 1948 by an African American engineer) ;
9 - Incense (early exploited use by both the Puntites, Ethiopians, Arabians and ancient Egyptians in Antiquity) ;
10 - French vanilla coffee (has ironically nothing of French... been developped in Belgian Congo by the same black man who invented the express torrefacting machine) ;
11 - Glass windows (first developped in Roman Egypt) ;
12 - Glass (developped around the areas of pre-dynastic Egypt and Mesolithic Lower Nubia, along the Nile) ;
13 - Writing (invented by West Africans around 7,000 BCE) ;
14 - Cosmetic care (developped by early agricultural cultures too) ;
and 15 - Mirrors (invented by ancient Egyptians too) .