From the computer to the steamboat, WSJ readers ranked the country’s greatest breakthroughs. Here are the results.

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker.

The votes are in. For the past three months, readers of The Wall Street Journal have ranked 60 U.S. inventions on their total impact on society. Those inventions ranged from the cotton gin to bluejeans, bypass surgery to the dishwasher, and, yes, even Post-it Notes.