6. V2 rocket engine (Change the world)

by SOHAIB: It powered a weapon used by the losing side in the second world war, but the V2, invented in 1942, shaped the world for decades afterwards.

The rocket’s creator, Wernher von Braun, moved to the US after the war, where he worked on the nascent intercontinental ballistic missile programme.

He then worked for NASA, where he masterminded the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 11 to the moon.