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re: What do you consider the greatest invention?
Posted on 6/30/18 at 3:43 pm to TheDeathValley
Posted on 6/30/18 at 3:43 pm to TheDeathValley
The transistor
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Posted on 6/30/18 at 4:10 pm to TheDeathValley
Thermos bottle
Posted on 6/30/18 at 4:27 pm to TheDeathValley
Anyone who has had a debilitating injury or suffered a chronic or severe illness (or witnessed a loved-one's injury or illness) will say that health is everything. So the answer to this question has to be something that made our lives healthier. So I'll go along with penicillin/antibiotics.
And along the lines of everyone pointing out that electricity was not an invention, penicillin was also a discovery, not an invention.
And along the lines of everyone pointing out that electricity was not an invention, penicillin was also a discovery, not an invention.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 4:34 pm to TheDeathValley
Faraday Disk/AC Generators.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 4:36 pm to TheDeathValley
Toilet.
Anti biotics
Internet
Anti biotics
Internet
Posted on 6/30/18 at 4:37 pm to 4LSU2
quote:
Electricity
The criteria, as requested by the OP, was greatest invention not discovery. Otherwise, I would have said electricity as well.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 4:43 pm to DavidTheGnome
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The wheel is the only real answer, definitely moreso than electricity
I'd rather walk or ride my horse to the bar down the street to watch the game on the big screen as the sun sets than to pedal my bicycle through the night by candlelight and sit at home sweating bullets while staring at the wall until I fall asleep from boredom
Posted on 6/30/18 at 4:45 pm to TheDeathValley
Sliced bread.
It’s the benchmark used to compare all other inventions.
It’s the benchmark used to compare all other inventions.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 4:46 pm to AbitaFan08
The wheel
Posted on 6/30/18 at 5:01 pm to TheDeathValley
Vaccines are pretty high up there. Maybe you can pinpoint a handful of significant agricultural inventions. These are the ones likely responsible for the most amount of lives saved.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 6:12 pm to TheDeathValley
quote:that's retarded. The ability to have electricity at will is an invention. We didn't harness lightening. We didn't harness static electricity. We didn't harness electricity. We invented different methods of creating electricity. Some of you are simply trying too hard to sound intelligent.
I don’t consider electricity as an invention, we just learned how to harness it.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 6:30 pm to TheDeathValley
The ability to generate and conduct electric current... nothing else comes close.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 8:13 pm to TheDeathValley
Writing of course.
If you can't record what was said and have your words understood after you've written them, reliable contracts can't exist and human cooperation breaks down. Basically everything breaks down, writing is fundamental to society.
Electricity and modern medicine would never have a chance to get off the ground.
If you can't record what was said and have your words understood after you've written them, reliable contracts can't exist and human cooperation breaks down. Basically everything breaks down, writing is fundamental to society.
Electricity and modern medicine would never have a chance to get off the ground.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 8:16 pm to TheDeathValley
indoor plumbing. water is amazing.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 8:30 pm to TheDeathValley
Printed word by far and the others aren't even close
Posted on 6/30/18 at 8:30 pm to TheDeathValley
The printing press.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 8:32 pm to BurtReynoldsMustache
Indoor plumbing.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 8:33 pm to mikelbr
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Antibiotics
"No need for em"
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