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Due to its widespread effect, innovation is an important topic in the study of economics, business, entrepreneurship, design, technology, sociology, and engineering.

In society, innovation aids in comfort, convenience, and efficiency in everyday life.

For instance, the benchmarks in railroad equipment and infrastructure added to greater safety, maintenance, speed, and weight capacity for passenger services.

These innovations included wood to steel cars, iron to steel rails, stove-heated to steam-heated cars, gas lighting to electric lighting, diesel-powered to electric-diesel locomotives.

By the mid-20th century, trains were making longer, faster, and more comfortable trips at lower costs for passengers.

Other areas that add to everyday quality of life include: the innovations to the light bulb from incandescent to compact fluorescent then LED technologies which offer greater efficiency, durability and brightness ; adoption of modems to cellular phones, paving the way to smartphones which supply the public with internet access any time or place ; cathode-ray tube to flat-screen LCD televisions and others.