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The Greatest Inventions of All Time

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    #32
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


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


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    #33
    Duckworth_Luas
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    Shenshen wrote: »
    Our second greatest invention of all time was the humble 0.
    So you're saying nothing was the greatest invention? :confused:


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    #34
    wilhelm roentgen
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    The Mothers of


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    #35
    Shenshen
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    So you're saying nothing was the greatest invention? :confused:

    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.


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    #36
    Karl Stein
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    The cat-flap; a door within a door.

    Pure genius.


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    Barely There
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    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.


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    #38
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭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?


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    #39
    Shenshen
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Did something not exist before nothing was invented?

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


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    #41
    valoren
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    Airplane.


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    #42
    handlemaster
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    11100011001111000111000 & so on and so forth


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    #43
    ScumLord
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    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.


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    #44
    Karl Stein
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    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.


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    #45
    Boom_Bap
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    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


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    #46
    Miss Lizzie Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Miss Lizzie Jones


    Soap, toilet paper and butter.


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