Tampax
In 1986, when the journalists of an American consumer magazine wanted to compile a list of the 50 most important products introduced in the last century, they had to work their way through more than 100,000 products. The fifty little miracles left behind, things that had revolutionized the life of the common American, included not only running shoes and air conditioning, but to many astonishment also the tampon, better known as the roll of tampax. Its inventor had died five years earlier. But he would not have been surprised at the choice: he had already been on these kinds of lists in his life.