The Greatest Inventions of All Time

Zombienosh

What in your opinion would be the greatest invention(s) of all time?

For me I'd say:

Peanut Butter
Toast
WD-40
Duct Tape
Cable Ties

WoollyRedHat

Sliced bread, get away with your toast.

Oh and velcro, gotta love that sweet sounding velcro.

Zombienosh

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Sliced bread, get away with your toast.

Oh and velcro, gotta love that sweet sounding velcro.

Bread was nothing until we set fire to it!

smash

Mobile Phones
The Internet
Air Planes
Bubble Wrap

WoollyRedHat

Zombienosh wrote: »

Bread was nothing until we set fire to it!

How dare you insult the humble deity of the sandwich. Speaking of wich... burn this witch! Burn it with fire!

Don Kedick

Women.

handlemaster

Printing press
Wheel
Contraception
Insuline

Boom_Bap

the machine that takes the seeds out of jam.

Seedless jam is the best.

iDave

Mini skirts

BizzyC

Penicilin
Semiconducors
Printing Press
Electricity
Paper

Karl Stein

Sandwiches.

SEPT 23 1989

Plastic

allibastor

Leggings!!!!

Barely There

Agriculture.

Probably the single biggest factor in our evolutionary history.

Second biggest was probably that Talking Tom Cat thingy that says the thing you say to it, back to you in a funny voice.
Man, that **** is hilarious.

Timberrrrrrrr

The wheel


Without it we wouldn't be where we are today








We'd be walking still:D

ScumLord

Electricity and computers have probably had the biggest impact on human civilization.

Timberrrrrrrr

Zombienosh wrote: »

What in your opinion would be the greatest invention(s) of all time?

For me I'd say:

Peanut Butter
Toast
WD-40
Duct Tape
Cable Ties

That sounds like a rape kit.

longshanks

Global warming.









0o

Barely There

ScumLord wrote: »

Electricity and computers have probably had the biggest impact on human civilization.

Not even close.

Agriculture, Writing, the Wheel, The Printing Press, Penicillin - off the top of my head were far more important.

megadodge

ScumLord wrote: »

The harnessing of Electricity and computers have probably had the biggest impact on human civilization.

Fixed that for you.

ScumLord

longshanks wrote: »

Global warming.









0o

Global warming could have a silver lining (for humans) in that it's keeping temperatures high in populated areas, I'm sure I've read somewhere that we probably should be in the beginnings of another ice age if it wasn't for humans pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Tokyo

Beer. Most definitely beer.

Barely There

ScumLord wrote: »

I'm sure I've read somewhere

That's good enough for me.

Manach

The on/off switch.

DuMorph

Anonymous browsing.

Duckworth_Luas

Roundhouse kicks

Grayson

sarcasm

ScumLord

Barely There wrote: »

Not even close.

Agriculture, Writing, the Wheel, The Printing Press, Penicillin - off the top of my head were far more important.

Agriculture was haphazard and prone to catastrophic failure in the past, electricity and computers have allowed us to take farming to another level entirely. Before the mechanising of farming agriculture was having problems keeping up with demand.

Writing and the printing press was also highly labour intensive which restricted books and the written word to a fairly small percentage of the population, while the printing press was an improvement it couldn't put books in that many peoples hands. The computer has given more information to more people than the printing press ever could. It has really leveled the playing field.

You try living without electricity and see how civilised you feel, it's a completely different lifestyle. Computers have probably done more for people than anybody can realise, everything about the modern world is dependant on them, they've changed humanity (as a whole) in ways no other invention ever could.

MonkeyTennis

Wham bars

Shenshen

The alphabet.

Writing was invented independently in only 4 places on the planet - yet it shaped our future far more than anything else we have come up with so far.

Sheep Lover

Raw toast

Shenshen

Our second greatest invention of all time was the humble 0.

Duckworth_Luas

Shenshen wrote: »

Our second greatest invention of all time was the humble 0.

So you're saying nothing was the greatest invention?

wilhelm roentgen

The Mothers of

Shenshen

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

So you're saying nothing was the greatest invention?

No, I'm saying that the invention of the number 0 was the second greatest invention ever.

It seems blindingly obvious in hindsight, as it would with most great inventions, but until the 10th century the concept of have a value 0 had not occured to anyone.
Inventing it opened the doors to mathematics as we know it today - which forms the basis of all our technology.

Karl Stein

The cat-flap; a door within a door.

Pure genius.

Barely There

ScumLord wrote: »

Agriculture was haphazard and prone to catastrophic failure in the past, electricity and computers have allowed us to take farming to another level entirely. Before the mechanising of farming agriculture was having problems keeping up with demand..

Nope, before agriculture, we were a nomadic people wandering about the place. The establishment of formalised agriculture allowed 'society' as we know it to develop.
Trade, concepts of ownership, family groupings, currency, establishments of cities, etc .

Wouldn't have had any electricity without this.

Duckworth_Luas

Shenshen wrote: »

No, I'm saying that the invention of the number 0 was the second greatest invention ever.

Did something not exist before nothing was invented?

Shenshen

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Did something not exist before nothing was invented?

Nope, nothing didn't exist before the human mind came up with it.

Boom_Bap

Boom_Bap wrote: »

the machine that takes the seeds out of jam.

Seedless jam is the best.

A sieve?



Best invention in the history of man is the roller blind. If it wasn't for blinds, it'd be curtains for all of us.

valoren

Airplane.

handlemaster

11100011001111000111000 & so on and so forth

ScumLord

Barely There wrote: »

Nope, before agriculture, we were a nomadic people wandering about the place. The establishment of formalised agriculture allowed 'society' as we know it to develop.
Trade, concepts of ownership, family groupings, currency, establishments of cities, etc .

Wouldn't have had any electricity without this.

That's not a certainty, it appears hunter gatherers have built some pretty complex temple complexes and that it was gatherings at these temples that they constructed that lead to settling down to agriculture. So it seems as likely that religion lead to agriculture and everything that came after that. Trade existed long before agriculture.

Karl Stein

What's the difference between a development and an invention?

Barely There wrote: »

Nope, before agriculture, we were a nomadic people wandering about the place.

Only in places where nomadic movement was required. People who lived in jungles would have had a supply of food year round so wouldn't have needed to follow animals or be affected by seasons as much.

The establishment of formalised agriculture allowed 'society' as we know it to develop.

Agriculture allowed towns and cities to develop.

Trade, concepts of ownership, family groupings, currency,

All pre-dated towns and cities.

Boom_Bap

Candie wrote: »

A sieve?

naw, it gots to be something more sophisticated than that with buttons, dials and flashing lights for all types of jiggerypokery jam making sensations

Miss Lizzie Jones

Soap, toilet paper and butter.